British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740}}}1830 [Paperback]

Burgess places authors such as Scott and Wollstonecraft in a new economic and social context.In British Fiction and Political Economy, Miranda Burgess examines what Romantic-period writers called 'romance'. Reading a broad range of fictional and nonfictional works published between 1740 and 1830, Burgess places authors such as Richardson, Scott, Austen and Wollstonecraft in a new economic, social, and cultural context. Burgess argues that the romance held a key role in remaking the national order of a Britain dependent on ideologies of human nature for justification of its social, economic, and political systems.In British Fiction and Political Economy, Miranda Burgess examines what Romantic-period writers called 'romance'. Reading a broad range of fictional and nonfictional works published between 1740 and 1830, Burgess places authors such as Richardson, Scott, Austen and Wollstonecraft in a new economic, social, and cultural context. Burgess argues that the romance held a key role in remaking the national order of a Britain dependent on ideologies of human nature for justification of its social, economic, and political systems.In British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, Miranda Burgess examines what Romantic-period writers called romance. Reading a broad range of fictional and nonfictional works published between 1740 and 1830, Burgess places authors such as Richardson, Scott, Austen and Wollstonecraft in a new economic, social, and cultural context. She argues that the romance held a key role in remaking the national order of a Britain dependent on ideologies of human nature for justification of its social, economic, and political systems.List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: romantic economies; 1. Marketing agreement: Richardson's romance of consensus; 2. 'Summoned into the machine': Burney's genres, Sheridan's sentiment, and conservative critique; 3. Wollstonecraft and the revolution of economic history; 4. Romance at home: Austen, Radclil“