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Novel Politics - Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Hardcover)
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Novel Politics - Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Hardcover)
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Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking
about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is
structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default
position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique comes alike
from Marxists, readers of nineteenth-century liberalism, and
critics making claims for the working-class novel, and
systematically under-reads democratic imaginations and social
questioning in novels of the period. To undo such readings means
evolving a new praxis of critical writing. Rather than addressing
the explicitly political and deeply limited accounts of the
machinery of franchise and ballot in texts, it is important to
create a poetics of the novel that opens up its radical aspects.
This can be done partly by taking a new look at some classic
nineteenth-century political texts (Mill, De Tocqueville, Hegel),
but centrally by exploring four claims: the novel is an open
Inquiry (compare philosophical Inquiries of the Enlightenment
contemporary with the novel's genesis), a lived interrogation, not
a pre-formed political document; radical thinking requires radical
formal experiment, creating generic and ideological disruption
simultaneously and putting the so-called realist novel and its
values under pressure; the poetics of social and phenomenological
space reveals an analysis of the dispossessed subject, not the
bildung of success or overcoming; the presence of the aesthetic and
art works in the novel is a constant source of social questioning.
Among texts discussed, six novels of illegitimacy, from Jane Austen
to Scott to George Eliot and George Moore, stand out because
illegitimacy, with its challenge to social norms, is a test case
for the novelist, and a growing point of the democratic
imagination.
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