Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel, which assumes that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Isobel Armstrong creates a poetics of the novel that opens up its radical aspects, and treats the novel as a lived interrogation, experimental, and a source of social questioning.
Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel, which assumes that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Isobel Armstrong creates a poetics of the novel that opens up its radical aspects, and treats the novel as a lived interrogation, experimental, and a source of social questioning.
Isobel Armstrong's career has been characterised by changes of location and the pleasure of different intellectual contexts. Beginning at University College London, she taught English and Victorian Studies at Leicester and Southampton, latterly returning to London University and to Birkbeck College. She has been Visiting Professor at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton, and teaches on the Middlebury Bread Loaf MA. Armstrong is a Fellow of the British Academy and elected to the American Academy. Her book Victorian Glassworlds(OUP, 2008) won the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize in 2009.
Inhaltsangabe
* Part I: Democratic Imaginaries * 1: Genealogies * 2: Illegitimacy: Genealogy Out of Place * 3: 'The Republic of my Imagination': Democratic Imaginations and Dialogic Print Culture * Part 2: Poetics for a Democratic Imagination * 4: Four Principles of Democratic Reading * 5: Reading for Democratic Imaginations: Inquiry, Form, and Illegitimate Mothers * 6: Reading for Democratic Imaginations: Inquiry, Form, and Illegitimate Children * 7: 'Absolutely destitute' * 8: The Aesthetic: Representation * 9: The Aesthetic and Bodies: Singing, Acting, Voicing Freedoms Ballads * Conclusion: Parting Questions
* Part I: Democratic Imaginaries * 1: Genealogies * 2: Illegitimacy: Genealogy Out of Place * 3: 'The Republic of my Imagination': Democratic Imaginations and Dialogic Print Culture * Part 2: Poetics for a Democratic Imagination * 4: Four Principles of Democratic Reading * 5: Reading for Democratic Imaginations: Inquiry, Form, and Illegitimate Mothers * 6: Reading for Democratic Imaginations: Inquiry, Form, and Illegitimate Children * 7: 'Absolutely destitute' * 8: The Aesthetic: Representation * 9: The Aesthetic and Bodies: Singing, Acting, Voicing Freedoms Ballads * Conclusion: Parting Questions
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