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Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity by Jamison Kantor (2023, Hardcover)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009123017

ISBN-139781009123013

eBay Product ID (ePID)3058372277

Product Key Features

Book TitleHonor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity

Number of Pages217 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorJamison Kantor

Book SeriesCambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

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LCCN2022-009681

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal820.935309034

Table Of Content1. Soliloquies in praise of chivalry: Burke, Godwin, and the politics of honor; 2. Say, What is honor: Wordsworth and the value of honor; 3. Full faith and credit: honor, finance, and the neofeudal utopia in Scott and Austen; 4. Black in character as in complexion: abolitionist media and the honorable body of Mary Prince.

SynopsisDespite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counterpoint to freedom, a well-known preoccupation of the period's literature. Focusing on texts by William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Mary Prince, and Mary Seacole, this book argues that the revitalization of honor in the first half of the nineteenth century signalled a crisis in the emerging liberal order, one with which we still wrestle today: how can political subjects demand real, materialist forms of dignity in a system dedicated to an abstract, and often impoverished, idea of 'liberty'? Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity presents both a theory and a history of this question in the media of the Black Atlantic, the Jacobin novel, the landscape poem, and the "financial" romance., This book reveals the development of a progressive sense of honor and dignity - against its usual counterpoint, freedom - within nineteenth-century British poetry, prose, and abolitionist media. For readers of literature, sociology, politics, and economics, it offers a rich cultural history of a value long viewed as reactionary and regressive.

LC Classification NumberPR468.H66K36 2022