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Hardback. New. 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, Bronte, 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…
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by Nancy Armstrong
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- Title How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900
- Author Nancy Armstrong
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
- Date December 12, 2005
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231130585 / 0231130589
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.34 x 0.72 in (23.67 x 16.10 x 1.83 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects English fiction - 19th century - History and, English fiction - 18th century - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005053782
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.809
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- Choice, 06/01/2006, Page 1823
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