Title Literature and the social order in eighteenth century england

Published [Place of publication not identified] ROUTLEDGE, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Summary Recent scholarship had emphasised the importance of a number of non-literary, economic and social debates to the understanding of Augustan Literature. Debates over the place of land, money, credit and luxury in society, as well as strands of radical thinking, are prominent throughout the period. Originally published in 1984, this anthology of eighteenth century writings about contemporary society is divided into sections on the social order, economics, the poor and crime, with a general introduction identifying some of the dominant social discourses of the period. They reflect the emergence of an embryonic capitalist society, with its challenge to feudal ties, and of a nascent bourgeois class. This collection of writings is not intended to provide material for an empirical historical account of these changes, but to give some idea of the ideological terms in which they are perceived, endorsed or contested by contemporaries; and provide a set of discursive contexts in which the imaginative literature of the period can be read. The texts themselves repay close analysis as the bearers of complex ideological positions and it is interesting to observe how, for example, Pope accommodates Shaftesbury and Mandeville in the Moral Essays. A fascinating anthology, Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, complete with editor's introduction and notes on the passages, aims to suggest lines of inquiry without offering a total' reading Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Sources Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Sources Order in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Economic history English literature Literature and society Order in literature Social conditions SUBJECT England -- Social conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043315 England -- Economic conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043296 Subject England Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Sources Form Electronic book Author Copley, Stephen, 1954- ISBN 9781000031065 1000031063 9781003009948 1003009948 9781000030983 1000030989 9781000030907 1000030903

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