{"product_id":"9780823272259","title":"Corporate Romanticism: Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eCorporate 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110923223280,"sku":"9780823272259","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780823272259_p0.jpg?v=1763751591","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780823272259","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}