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Plots of Enlightenment - Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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Plots of Enlightenment - Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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"Plots of Enlightenment" explores the emergence of the English
novel during the early 1700s as a preeminent form of popular
education at a time when educators were defining a new kind of
"modern" English citizenship for both men and women. This new
individual was imagined neither as the free, self-determined figure
of early modern liberalism or republicanism, nor, at the other
extreme, as the product of a nearly totalized disciplinary regimen.
Instead, this new citizen materialized from the tensile process of
what the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls "regulated
improvisation," a strategy of performed individual identity that
combines both social orchestration and individual agency.
This book considers how the period's diverse forms of educational
writing (including chapbooks, conduct books, and philosophical
treatises) and the most innovative educational institutions of the
age (such as charity schools, working schools, and proposed
academies for young women) produced a shared concept of improvised
identity also shaped by the early novel's pedagogical agenda. The
model of improvised subjectivity contributed to new ways of
imagining English individuality as both a private and public
entity; it also empowered women authors, both educators and
novelists, to transform traditional ideals of femininity in forming
their own protofeminist versions of enlightened female identity.
While offering a comprehensive account of the novel's educational
status during the Enlightenment, "Plots of Enlightenment" focuses
particularly on the first half of the eighteenth century, when
novelists such as Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Lennox
were first exploring concepts of fictional character based on
educational and moral improvisation. A close examination of these
authors' work illustrates further that by the 1750s, the
improvisational impulse in England had forged the first perceptible
outlines of the fictional subgenre later called the novel of
education or the "Bildungsroman." This book is the first study of
its kind to account for the complex interplay between the
individualist and collectivist protocols of early modern fiction,
with an eye toward articulating a comprehensive description of
socialization and literary form that can accommodate the
similarities and differences in the works of both male and female
writers.
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