Gleaning Modernity

Earlier Eighteenth-century Literature and the Modernizing Process

• Author(s): Eric Rothstein,
• Publisher: Associated University Presse
• Pages: 269
• ISBN_10: 0874139848
  ISBN_13: 9780874139846
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / Books & Reading ,

Description:... "Through rigorously historical but not univocal readings of several widely familiar works, the book also argues that this literature does socially constitutive work in a way that differs from commonly made neofoucauldian, marxisant claims. Its (non-cynical) consumer-driven model, in which artworks offer variously instructive make-believe, does not require or invoke transgression, subversion, finger-wagging, or complaisance as means of social efficacy."--BOOK JACKET.