Monstrous society : reciprocity, discipline, and the political uncanny, c. 1780-1848 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Collings, David, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2009]
Series:	Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Subjects:	English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Literature and society > England > History > 18th century. Literature and society > England > History > 19th century. Literature and history > Great Britain. Burke, Edmund, > 1729-1797 > Political and social views. Bentham, Jeremy, > 1748-1832 > Political and social views. Malthus, T. R. > (Thomas Robert), > 1766-1834 > Political and social views.

Table of Contents:

Reversibility and the crowd in early modern England
The monstrous crowds and mysterious incorporations of Edmund Burke
Society without reciprocity: the auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham
The ghost of revolution: the politics of the uncanny in The monk
Discipline of disaster: the cancellation of reciprocity in T. R. Malthus
Monstrous "man": impasses of social mastery in Frankenstein
The politics of reciprocity: transformations of counterpower at the end of early modern England.