LEADER 03806oam 22006014a 450 001 9910154725903321 005 20170509103025.0 010 $a0-8232-7227-3 010 $a0-8232-7228-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000880745 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4681087 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660399 035 $a(OCoLC)966458148 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52668 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000880745 100 $a20160930e20162017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCorporate Romanticism$eLiberalism, Justice, and the Novel /$fDaniel M. Stout 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2016 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2017 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) 225 0 $aLit Z 300 $aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 311 $a0-8232-7223-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [231]-248) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : personification and its discontents -- 1. The pursuit of guilty things : corporate actors, collective actions, and romantic abstraction -- 2. The one and the manor : on being, doing, and deserving in Mansfield Park -- 3. Castes of exception : tradition and the public sphere in The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner -- 4. Nothing personal : the decapitations of character in A tale of two cities -- 5. Not world enough : easement, externality, and the edges of justice (Caleb Williams) -- Epilogue : everything counts (Frankenstein). 330 $aCorporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments-the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action-undermined the basic assumption underpinning both liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading works by Godwin, Austen, Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Dickens alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, Daniel Stout argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualism's ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action. Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons. 410 0$aLit z. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiberalism in literature 606 $aJuristic persons 606 $aIndividualism in literature 606 $aCorporations in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiberalism in literature. 615 0$aJuristic persons 615 0$aIndividualism in literature. 615 0$aCorporations in literature. 676 $a823.809 700 $aStout$b Daniel$0144005 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154725903321 996 $aCorporate romanticism$92614614 997 $aUNINA