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Enlightenment and Political Fiction - The Everyday Intellectual (Paperback)
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Enlightenment and Political Fiction - The Everyday Intellectual (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth
century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into
the intellectual debates of the time, as much of the core of modern
political and economic theory was to be found first in the fiction,
not the theory, of this age. Amusingly, many of these abstract
ideas were presented for the first time in stories featuring
less-than-gifted central characters. The five particular works of
fiction examined here, which this book takes as embodying the core
of the Enlightenment, focus more on the individual than on social
group. Nevertheless, in these same works of fiction, this
individual has responsibilities as well as rights-and these
responsibilities and rights apply to every individual, across the
board, regardless of social class, financial status, race, age, or
gender. Unlike studies of the Enlightenment which focus only on
theory and nonfiction, this study of fiction makes evident that
there was a vibrant concern for the constructive as well as
destructive aspects of emotion during the Enlightenment, rather
than an exclusive concern for rationality.
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