Description: How Novels Think : The Limits of Individualism from 1, Hardcover by Armstrong, Nancy, ISBN 0231130589, ISBN-13 9780231130585, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person a place commensurate with his or her individual worth. Once the novel had created this figure, readers understood themselves in terms of a narrative that produced a self-governing subject.
In the decades following the revolutions in British North America and France, the major novelists distinguished themselves as authors by questioning the fantasy of a self-made individual. To show how novels by Defoe, Austen, Scott, Bront, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Haggard, and Stoker participated in the process of making, updating, and perpetuating the figure of the individual, Armstrong puts them in dialogue with the writings of Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Malthus, Darwin, Kant, and Freud. Such theorists as Althusser, Balibar, Foucault, and Deleuze help her make the point that the individual was not one but several different figures. The delineation and potential of the modern subject depended as much upon what it had to incorporate as what alternatives it had to keep at bay to address the conflicts raging in and around the British novel.
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Book Title: How Novels Think : The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: How Novels Think : the Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, General, Europe / Great Britain / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Nancy Armstrong
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
