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Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback)
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Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Literature
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Recent scholarship had emphasised the importance of a number of
non-literary, economic and social debates to the understanding of
Augustan Literature. Debates over the place of land, money, credit
and luxury in society, as well as strands of radical thinking, are
prominent throughout the period. Originally published in 1984, this
anthology of eighteenth century writings about contemporary society
is divided into sections on the social order, economics, the poor
and crime, with a general introduction identifying some of the
dominant social discourses of the period. They reflect the
emergence of an embryonic capitalist society, with its challenge to
feudal ties, and of a nascent bourgeois class. This collection of
writings is not intended to provide material for an empirical
historical account of these changes, but to give some idea of the
ideological terms in which they are perceived, endorsed or
contested by contemporaries; and provide a set of discursive
contexts in which the imaginative literature of the period can be
read. The texts themselves repay close analysis as the bearers of
complex ideological positions and it is interesting to observe how,
for example, Pope accommodates Shaftesbury and Mandeville in the
Moral Essays. A fascinating anthology, Literature and the Social
Order in Eighteenth-Century England, complete with editor's
introduction and notes on the passages, aims to suggest lines of
inquiry without offering a 'total' reading.
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