Monstrous society : reciprocity, discipline, and the political uncanny, c. 1780-1848 /
Collings, David,1959-
Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-321) and index.
Reversibility and the crowd in early modern England -- The monstrous crowds and mysterious incorporations of Edmund Burke -- Society without reciprocity: the auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham -- The ghost of revolution: the politics of the uncanny in The monk -- Discipline of disaster: the cancellation of reciprocity in T. R. Malthus -- Monstrous "man": impasses of social mastery in Frankenstein -- The politics of reciprocity: transformations of counterpower at the end of early modern England.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834
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