Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
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- Author: Jamison Kantor, Ohio State University
- Date Published: January 2023
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009123013
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Despite 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.
Read more- Offers a cultural history of the shifting ideas of honor, dignity, and shame in some of the most important literature of the nineteenth century
- Develops a theory of the limits of liberal political thought through an exploration of Romantic literature, philosophy, and art
- Produces an analysis of Black Atlantic literature that moves beyond the abstract category of freedom, and towards concrete forms of dignity and mutual recognition
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- Date Published: January 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009123013
- length: 217 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. 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.
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