Philip J. M. Sturgess
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198119548
- eISBN:
- 9780191671173
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198119548.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Defining narrativity as the enabling force of narrative, this is a full-length exploration of the concept in fiction. It develops the notion of a ‘logic of narrativity’, and by this means contributes ...
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Defining narrativity as the enabling force of narrative, this is a full-length exploration of the concept in fiction. It develops the notion of a ‘logic of narrativity’, and by this means contributes a new critical strategy to the field of narrative theory. The book also takes issue with a number of critical approaches which have in recent years acquired near-orthodox status in the matter of textual interpretation. Most prominent among these approaches are deconstruction and a particular form of Marxist criticism. The author's own theoretical claims are substantiated by readings of major 20th-century novels by Conrad, Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Arthur Koestler, and the book concludes with an analysis of an earlier narrative, Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, which illustrates the wider premises of the theory and its applications.Less
Defining narrativity as the enabling force of narrative, this is a full-length exploration of the concept in fiction. It develops the notion of a ‘logic of narrativity’, and by this means contributes a new critical strategy to the field of narrative theory. The book also takes issue with a number of critical approaches which have in recent years acquired near-orthodox status in the matter of textual interpretation. Most prominent among these approaches are deconstruction and a particular form of Marxist criticism. The author's own theoretical claims are substantiated by readings of major 20th-century novels by Conrad, Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Arthur Koestler, and the book concludes with an analysis of an earlier narrative, Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, which illustrates the wider premises of the theory and its applications.
Ken Binmore
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195300574
- eISBN:
- 9780199783748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300574.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics
This chapter is an introduction to the theory of imperfectly competitive markets — a subject that was largely terra incognita before the advent of game theory. The models studied include those of ...
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This chapter is an introduction to the theory of imperfectly competitive markets — a subject that was largely terra incognita before the advent of game theory. The models studied include those of Cournot, Bertrand, and Stackelberg. An unusual feature is a discussion of the Bertrand-Edgeworth model, both with efficient and proportional rationing.Less
This chapter is an introduction to the theory of imperfectly competitive markets — a subject that was largely terra incognita before the advent of game theory. The models studied include those of Cournot, Bertrand, and Stackelberg. An unusual feature is a discussion of the Bertrand-Edgeworth model, both with efficient and proportional rationing.
Ken Binmore
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195300574
- eISBN:
- 9780199783748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300574.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics
This chapter reviews classical topics in economics. It is intended mostly for readers who have not studied economics before, but it is written in a style that will perhaps offer something new for ...
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This chapter reviews classical topics in economics. It is intended mostly for readers who have not studied economics before, but it is written in a style that will perhaps offer something new for students of economics. The topics covered include demand and supply curves, the Edgeworth box, classical and discriminating monopolies, perfect competition, and Walrasian equilibrium.Less
This chapter reviews classical topics in economics. It is intended mostly for readers who have not studied economics before, but it is written in a style that will perhaps offer something new for students of economics. The topics covered include demand and supply curves, the Edgeworth box, classical and discriminating monopolies, perfect competition, and Walrasian equilibrium.
Sarah Moss
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719076510
- eISBN:
- 9781781702710
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719076510.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money, and brings the ...
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The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money, and brings the body and the marketplace together in ways that are sometimes obvious and sometimes unsettling. This book explores these relations in the context of late eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine. The introduction suggests ways in which attention to food in these texts might complicate recent developments in literary theory and criticism, while the body of the book is devoted to close readings of novels and children's stories by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth and Susan Ferrier. Burney and Wollstonecraft explore the ways in which eating and not eating (mis)represent women's sexuality, and consider how women's intellectual and economic productivity might disrupt easy equations between appetites at the table and in bed. Edgeworth and Ferrier, Anglo-Irish and Scottish writers respectively, are more interested in cooking and eating as ways of enacting and manipulating national identity and class.Less
The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money, and brings the body and the marketplace together in ways that are sometimes obvious and sometimes unsettling. This book explores these relations in the context of late eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine. The introduction suggests ways in which attention to food in these texts might complicate recent developments in literary theory and criticism, while the body of the book is devoted to close readings of novels and children's stories by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth and Susan Ferrier. Burney and Wollstonecraft explore the ways in which eating and not eating (mis)represent women's sexuality, and consider how women's intellectual and economic productivity might disrupt easy equations between appetites at the table and in bed. Edgeworth and Ferrier, Anglo-Irish and Scottish writers respectively, are more interested in cooking and eating as ways of enacting and manipulating national identity and class.
W.J. Mc Cormack
- Published in print:
- 1985
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198128069
- eISBN:
- 9780191671630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198128069.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter discusses Castle Rackrent, an Irish novel by Maria Edgeworth which illustrates the history of Anglo-Irish fiction and the reflective qualities of a literary history. Besides disclosing ...
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This chapter discusses Castle Rackrent, an Irish novel by Maria Edgeworth which illustrates the history of Anglo-Irish fiction and the reflective qualities of a literary history. Besides disclosing the literary history of Ireland, the novel as well serves as a glimpse in to the genealogy of the Rackrents and a mirror of the discontinuities and crises of an emergent literary form in the age of revolution.Less
This chapter discusses Castle Rackrent, an Irish novel by Maria Edgeworth which illustrates the history of Anglo-Irish fiction and the reflective qualities of a literary history. Besides disclosing the literary history of Ireland, the novel as well serves as a glimpse in to the genealogy of the Rackrents and a mirror of the discontinuities and crises of an emergent literary form in the age of revolution.
W.J. Mc Cormack
- Published in print:
- 1985
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198128069
- eISBN:
- 9780191671630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198128069.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter aims to place Maria Edgeworth's novel in a broader historical context and to illustrate that these extended boundaries permit viewing the novel as an active agent in an imaginative ...
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This chapter aims to place Maria Edgeworth's novel in a broader historical context and to illustrate that these extended boundaries permit viewing the novel as an active agent in an imaginative debate of lasting significance. This chapter focuses on the novel The Absentee and its implied meaning and relationship to the status of Catholics and the significance of the past, in the light of contemporary anti-revolutionary liberalism.Less
This chapter aims to place Maria Edgeworth's novel in a broader historical context and to illustrate that these extended boundaries permit viewing the novel as an active agent in an imaginative debate of lasting significance. This chapter focuses on the novel The Absentee and its implied meaning and relationship to the status of Catholics and the significance of the past, in the light of contemporary anti-revolutionary liberalism.
Murray Pittock
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199232796
- eISBN:
- 9780191716409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232796.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter assesses the debate over the extent of Edgeworth's linguistic and cultural radicalism in the national tale, and argues that her use of language is in fact quite similar to Burns', being ...
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This chapter assesses the debate over the extent of Edgeworth's linguistic and cultural radicalism in the national tale, and argues that her use of language is in fact quite similar to Burns', being read differently in part at least as a result of class prejudice. A detailed account of the innovative quality of her major works, and their relationship to the writing and ideas of Adam Smith and other writers follows.Less
This chapter assesses the debate over the extent of Edgeworth's linguistic and cultural radicalism in the national tale, and argues that her use of language is in fact quite similar to Burns', being read differently in part at least as a result of class prejudice. A detailed account of the innovative quality of her major works, and their relationship to the writing and ideas of Adam Smith and other writers follows.
Aman Ullah
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- August 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780198774471
- eISBN:
- 9780191601347
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198774478.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Econometrics
Many practical situations in econometrics require more than just studying the moment of econometric estimators or test statistics. Certain cases require knowledge of the sampling distribution of the ...
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Many practical situations in econometrics require more than just studying the moment of econometric estimators or test statistics. Certain cases require knowledge of the sampling distribution of the estimators. This chapter derives approximation techniques for easier asymptotic expansions for the density and distribution of functions.Less
Many practical situations in econometrics require more than just studying the moment of econometric estimators or test statistics. Certain cases require knowledge of the sampling distribution of the estimators. This chapter derives approximation techniques for easier asymptotic expansions for the density and distribution of functions.
Angelica Goodden
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199238095
- eISBN:
- 9780191716669
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238095.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
From Sweden, Staël returns to London after an absence of twenty years, conferring with Whigs (for their liberalism rather than their pro-Napoleonism) and the ruling Tories, enjoying her celebrity, ...
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From Sweden, Staël returns to London after an absence of twenty years, conferring with Whigs (for their liberalism rather than their pro-Napoleonism) and the ruling Tories, enjoying her celebrity, and increasing it with the triumphant publication in French and English of De l'Allemagne. Fanny Burney, who greatly admires Staël's latest book, continues to regret the impossibility of meeting her, and Maria Edgeworth likewise; Byron, another enthusiast for the work, watches her ‘perform’ in society with both scorn and amusement, while statesmen are more or less shocked by her boldness in advising them how to handle war and peace. She enjoys her fame, but longs for Paris and French conversation; continuing to provoke both disapproval and interest, she finds that her foreignness excuses some of her social faux-pas but not others. The abolitionist Wilberforce becomes a friend, and she promises with Wellington to help propagate his writings in France.Less
From Sweden, Staël returns to London after an absence of twenty years, conferring with Whigs (for their liberalism rather than their pro-Napoleonism) and the ruling Tories, enjoying her celebrity, and increasing it with the triumphant publication in French and English of De l'Allemagne. Fanny Burney, who greatly admires Staël's latest book, continues to regret the impossibility of meeting her, and Maria Edgeworth likewise; Byron, another enthusiast for the work, watches her ‘perform’ in society with both scorn and amusement, while statesmen are more or less shocked by her boldness in advising them how to handle war and peace. She enjoys her fame, but longs for Paris and French conversation; continuing to provoke both disapproval and interest, she finds that her foreignness excuses some of her social faux-pas but not others. The abolitionist Wilberforce becomes a friend, and she promises with Wellington to help propagate his writings in France.
Lyn C. Thomas
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199232130
- eISBN:
- 9780191715914
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232130.003.0003
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Finance
This chapter builds models to determine the ‘price’ (interest rate) a lender should charge on a loan to maximize the expected profit, taking into account both the default risk of the borrower and the ...
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This chapter builds models to determine the ‘price’ (interest rate) a lender should charge on a loan to maximize the expected profit, taking into account both the default risk of the borrower and the relationship between response (take up) rate and the price charged. Starting with a simple two-price model, it extends the ideas to risk-based pricing, including how adverse selection and affordability of repayments can be included in the model. It investigates acceptance scoring where one determines what other non-price features should be offered as part of the loan to maximize the acceptance rate and hence the profitability of the loan. It develops a game theory model based on the Edgeworth market game, which allows for the trade-offs that lenders have between profit and market share, and that borrowers have between interest rate charged and credit limit.Less
This chapter builds models to determine the ‘price’ (interest rate) a lender should charge on a loan to maximize the expected profit, taking into account both the default risk of the borrower and the relationship between response (take up) rate and the price charged. Starting with a simple two-price model, it extends the ideas to risk-based pricing, including how adverse selection and affordability of repayments can be included in the model. It investigates acceptance scoring where one determines what other non-price features should be offered as part of the loan to maximize the acceptance rate and hence the profitability of the loan. It develops a game theory model based on the Edgeworth market game, which allows for the trade-offs that lenders have between profit and market share, and that borrowers have between interest rate charged and credit limit.
S. N. Afriat
- Published in print:
- 1987
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198284611
- eISBN:
- 9780191595844
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198284616.003.0022
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics
This is the fifth of six chapters on the logic of price. It is concerned with the proper microeconomic theory of general equilibrium understood as serving questions raised by Frederic Bastiat ...
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This is the fifth of six chapters on the logic of price. It is concerned with the proper microeconomic theory of general equilibrium understood as serving questions raised by Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) and illuminating Adam Smith's Invisible Hand, and going beyond basic theory of prices and the market. The eight sections of the chapter are: Crusoe's development; Edgeworth's box; three senses of equilibrium (centralized equilibrium, decentralized equilibrium, exchange equilibrium); feasible prices; a Cobb–Douglas world; the hyperbox; production and profit; and lessons in Edgeworth's box.Less
This is the fifth of six chapters on the logic of price. It is concerned with the proper microeconomic theory of general equilibrium understood as serving questions raised by Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) and illuminating Adam Smith's Invisible Hand, and going beyond basic theory of prices and the market. The eight sections of the chapter are: Crusoe's development; Edgeworth's box; three senses of equilibrium (centralized equilibrium, decentralized equilibrium, exchange equilibrium); feasible prices; a Cobb–Douglas world; the hyperbox; production and profit; and lessons in Edgeworth's box.
Amy M. King
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195161519
- eISBN:
- 9780199787838
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161519.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter focuses on the set of meanings about botany and botanical practices that were forming in the 18th century to understand the botanical vernacular in its emergent stages. It argues that ...
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This chapter focuses on the set of meanings about botany and botanical practices that were forming in the 18th century to understand the botanical vernacular in its emergent stages. It argues that the bloom narrative emerged from the Linnaean context and then developed as a literary narrative; bloom does not shift in accordance with the botanical changes of the 1830s and beyond but rather with the literary tides out of which that narrative grew. Maria Edgeworth's Belinda, and the poems of Charlotte Smith and Erasmus Darwin are analyzed.Less
This chapter focuses on the set of meanings about botany and botanical practices that were forming in the 18th century to understand the botanical vernacular in its emergent stages. It argues that the bloom narrative emerged from the Linnaean context and then developed as a literary narrative; bloom does not shift in accordance with the botanical changes of the 1830s and beyond but rather with the literary tides out of which that narrative grew. Maria Edgeworth's Belinda, and the poems of Charlotte Smith and Erasmus Darwin are analyzed.
Yoon Sun Lee
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195162356
- eISBN:
- 9780199787852
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162356.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Romantic nationalism in Britain was strengthened by the discovery of irony's civic potential. As irony became part of public discourse and behavioral repertoire, the awareness of artifice and ...
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Romantic nationalism in Britain was strengthened by the discovery of irony's civic potential. As irony became part of public discourse and behavioral repertoire, the awareness of artifice and convention was made compatible with displays of loyalty and deference. This chapter discusses how modern nationalism and the discourse of Romantic irony arose in the same historical context. Irony proved particularly useful in representing the peculiar status held by Ireland and Scotland within the British nation. Rather than trying to obscure the fictive and fractured nature of British unity, Burke's letters and speeches, Scott's historical novels, and Carlyle's reviews and histories rely on the paradoxically cohesive force of irony.Less
Romantic nationalism in Britain was strengthened by the discovery of irony's civic potential. As irony became part of public discourse and behavioral repertoire, the awareness of artifice and convention was made compatible with displays of loyalty and deference. This chapter discusses how modern nationalism and the discourse of Romantic irony arose in the same historical context. Irony proved particularly useful in representing the peculiar status held by Ireland and Scotland within the British nation. Rather than trying to obscure the fictive and fractured nature of British unity, Burke's letters and speeches, Scott's historical novels, and Carlyle's reviews and histories rely on the paradoxically cohesive force of irony.
Marilyn Butler
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198182887
- eISBN:
- 9780191673900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182887.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature, 18th-century Literature
Maria Edgeworth is one of many 18th- and 19th-century women writers now identified as having had a problematic relationship with her father. Where modern women value strong female models, earlier ...
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Maria Edgeworth is one of many 18th- and 19th-century women writers now identified as having had a problematic relationship with her father. Where modern women value strong female models, earlier women may have felt a need for sympathetic mentors, intellectual nurturers who were, perforce, more often the father. In Edgeworth’s childhood experience, life with father at home represented both emotional security and access to knowledge.Less
Maria Edgeworth is one of many 18th- and 19th-century women writers now identified as having had a problematic relationship with her father. Where modern women value strong female models, earlier women may have felt a need for sympathetic mentors, intellectual nurturers who were, perforce, more often the father. In Edgeworth’s childhood experience, life with father at home represented both emotional security and access to knowledge.
Ernesto Screpanti and Stefano Zamagni
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199279142
- eISBN:
- 9780191602887
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199279144.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, History of Economic Thought
Traces the rapid diffusion of the neoclassical paradigm in Europe and the USA. In particular, considers the birth of the 'national schools' during la belle époque: the Marshallian School in England; ...
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Traces the rapid diffusion of the neoclassical paradigm in Europe and the USA. In particular, considers the birth of the 'national schools' during la belle époque: the Marshallian School in England; the Swedish; the Austrian; the American; the Italian—each characterized by some peculiar elements of specificity.Less
Traces the rapid diffusion of the neoclassical paradigm in Europe and the USA. In particular, considers the birth of the 'national schools' during la belle époque: the Marshallian School in England; the Swedish; the Austrian; the American; the Italian—each characterized by some peculiar elements of specificity.
Nicola J. Watson
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198112976
- eISBN:
- 9780191670893
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198112976.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Whatever happened to the epistolary novel? Why was it that by 1825 the principal narrative form of 18th-century fiction had been replaced by the third-person and often historicised models which have ...
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Whatever happened to the epistolary novel? Why was it that by 1825 the principal narrative form of 18th-century fiction had been replaced by the third-person and often historicised models which have predominated ever since? This original and wide-ranging study charts the suppression of epistolary fiction, exploring the attempted radicalization of the genre by Wollstonecraft and other feminists in the 1790s, its rejection and parody by Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, the increasingly discredited role played by letters in the historical novels of Jane Porter and Walter Scott, and their troubling, ghostly presence in the Gothic narratives of James Hogg and Charles Maturin. The shift in narrative method is seen as a response to anxieties about the French Revolution, with the epistolary, feminized, and sentimental plot replaced by a more authoritarian third-person mode as part of a wider redrawing of the relation between the individual and the social consensus.Less
Whatever happened to the epistolary novel? Why was it that by 1825 the principal narrative form of 18th-century fiction had been replaced by the third-person and often historicised models which have predominated ever since? This original and wide-ranging study charts the suppression of epistolary fiction, exploring the attempted radicalization of the genre by Wollstonecraft and other feminists in the 1790s, its rejection and parody by Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, the increasingly discredited role played by letters in the historical novels of Jane Porter and Walter Scott, and their troubling, ghostly presence in the Gothic narratives of James Hogg and Charles Maturin. The shift in narrative method is seen as a response to anxieties about the French Revolution, with the epistolary, feminized, and sentimental plot replaced by a more authoritarian third-person mode as part of a wider redrawing of the relation between the individual and the social consensus.
Nicola J. Watson
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198112976
- eISBN:
- 9780191670893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198112976.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter pursues a related and amplified thematics of ‘right reading’ in the early novels of Scott and a number of fellow writers — Lady Sydney Morgan and Maria Edgeworth amongst them — novels ...
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This chapter pursues a related and amplified thematics of ‘right reading’ in the early novels of Scott and a number of fellow writers — Lady Sydney Morgan and Maria Edgeworth amongst them — novels which subordinate the individual sensibility associated with the letter and the residue of the Rousseauistic plot to social, indeed national and historical, consensus. The chapter is particularly concerned with tracing the recuperative transliteration of epistolary correspondence into the competing fictions of historiography, a transliteration which allows for the selective authentication of one socially healing version of a national past.Less
This chapter pursues a related and amplified thematics of ‘right reading’ in the early novels of Scott and a number of fellow writers — Lady Sydney Morgan and Maria Edgeworth amongst them — novels which subordinate the individual sensibility associated with the letter and the residue of the Rousseauistic plot to social, indeed national and historical, consensus. The chapter is particularly concerned with tracing the recuperative transliteration of epistolary correspondence into the competing fictions of historiography, a transliteration which allows for the selective authentication of one socially healing version of a national past.
Seamus Deane
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198184904
- eISBN:
- 9780191674389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184904.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter begins with Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, reading it as a foundational text for a particular description of a contrast and a contest between tradition and modernity ...
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This chapter begins with Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, reading it as a foundational text for a particular description of a contrast and a contest between tradition and modernity that was to become routine in anti-revolutionary writing in Europe. It argues that the Reflections can be understood as a work in which two dominant discourses are deployed: one cultural, the other economic. The first discourse is centred around the events of October 6 1789 and has the French Royal Family, especially Marie Antoinette, as its most fertile emblem. The second is centred around the French finances and the possibility of their recovery through the kinds of fiscal reform that had been initiated by Calonne and Necker, with the new French currency as its central emblem.Less
This chapter begins with Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, reading it as a foundational text for a particular description of a contrast and a contest between tradition and modernity that was to become routine in anti-revolutionary writing in Europe. It argues that the Reflections can be understood as a work in which two dominant discourses are deployed: one cultural, the other economic. The first discourse is centred around the events of October 6 1789 and has the French Royal Family, especially Marie Antoinette, as its most fertile emblem. The second is centred around the French finances and the possibility of their recovery through the kinds of fiscal reform that had been initiated by Calonne and Necker, with the new French currency as its central emblem.
Catherine Gallagher
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198182436
- eISBN:
- 9780191673801
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182436.003.0016
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter discusses the productive fictions of Maria Edgeworth. These works show Edgeworth's desire to ground them in clear and distinct general principles, which was nurtured by her strange late ...
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This chapter discusses the productive fictions of Maria Edgeworth. These works show Edgeworth's desire to ground them in clear and distinct general principles, which was nurtured by her strange late eighteenth-century blend of patriarchalism and productivism. Her sense of obligation was clearly the productive force in her writing career, but after producing Harrington to get rid of her didacticism and her anxiety about debt, she appears to have written her way out of her desire to write.Less
This chapter discusses the productive fictions of Maria Edgeworth. These works show Edgeworth's desire to ground them in clear and distinct general principles, which was nurtured by her strange late eighteenth-century blend of patriarchalism and productivism. Her sense of obligation was clearly the productive force in her writing career, but after producing Harrington to get rid of her didacticism and her anxiety about debt, she appears to have written her way out of her desire to write.
Marilyn Butler
- Published in print:
- 1988
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198129684
- eISBN:
- 9780191671838
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198129684.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The so-called Jacobin novelist seeks to dramatize and give value to the individual. He believes in the reality of the external social world, but he views it with hostility, and presents it angled ...
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The so-called Jacobin novelist seeks to dramatize and give value to the individual. He believes in the reality of the external social world, but he views it with hostility, and presents it angled through a single consciousness: it is an environment that at best puts pressure on his hero, at worst imprisons him. Judged by these criteria, Maria Edgeworth is unquestionably a Jacobin. And yet, in spite of her opinions, and the unusual clarity with which they are presented, her novels do not belong unequivocally to one side. She is far more nearly bi-partisan than Jane Austen, who begins to write about the same time. A more dedicated intellectual than Jane Austen, and through a combination of circumstances largely cut off from prior conditioning by her class, Maria Edgeworth found her own route to the contemporary battleground.Less
The so-called Jacobin novelist seeks to dramatize and give value to the individual. He believes in the reality of the external social world, but he views it with hostility, and presents it angled through a single consciousness: it is an environment that at best puts pressure on his hero, at worst imprisons him. Judged by these criteria, Maria Edgeworth is unquestionably a Jacobin. And yet, in spite of her opinions, and the unusual clarity with which they are presented, her novels do not belong unequivocally to one side. She is far more nearly bi-partisan than Jane Austen, who begins to write about the same time. A more dedicated intellectual than Jane Austen, and through a combination of circumstances largely cut off from prior conditioning by her class, Maria Edgeworth found her own route to the contemporary battleground.
