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Stuart Sim

The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues: An Introduction

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The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues:An IntroductionStuart SimThis study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues.Eighteenth-century authors grappled with very similar problems to the ones we face today such as: what motivates a fundamentalist terrorist? (see James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner); what are the justifiable limits of state power? (see William Godwin's Caleb Williams); what dangers lie in wait for us when we create life artificially? (see Mary Shelley's Frankenstein). As Stuart Sim shows, the fictional treatment of these problems ins… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7486-2600-7
  • EAN: 9780748626007
  • Produktnummer: 22687489
  • Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 213 S.
  • Masse: H21.3 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.3 cm 386 g
  • Gewicht: 386
  • Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor


Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University. He has published widely on critical theory, and is a Fellow of the English Association. Amongst his recent publications are The Lyotard Dictionary (2011), Addicted to Profit: Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free Market (2012), Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers (2013), and, with Brett Wilson and Barbara Hawkins (eds) Art, Science & Cultural Understanding (2014).

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