The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues: An Introduction
ISBN-13:
9780748625994
ISBN-10:
0748625992
Edition:
1
Author:
Stuart Sim
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780748625994
ISBN-10:
0748625992
Edition:
1
Author:
Stuart Sim
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
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The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues: An Introduction (ISBN-13: 9780748625994 and ISBN-10: 0748625992), written by authors
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This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues. Eighteenth-century authors grappled with very similar problems to the ones we face today such as: what motivates a fundamentalist terrorist? What are the justifiable limits of state power? What dangers lie in wait for us when we create life artificially?The book discusses key authors from Aphra Behn in the late seventeenth century to James Hogg in the 1820s, covering the 'long' eighteenth century. It guides readers through the main genres of the period from Realism, Gothic romance and historical romance to proto-science fiction. It also introduces a range of debates around race relations, anti-social behaviour, family values and born-again theology as well as the power of the media, surveillance, political sovereignty and fundamentalist terrorism. Each novel is shown to be directly relevant to some of the most urgent moral issues of our own time.
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