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9780674002579

Original Subjects : The Child, the Novel, and the Nation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674002579

  • ISBN10:

    0674002571

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-09-01
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary

Original Subjects explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation, as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions. Alryyes examines how these works deploy similar metaphors and signifying narratives in which a homeless child is central. Taking up such disparate writers and novelists as Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Defoe, Richardson, Diderot, Scott, Stendhal, Balzac, and Disraeli, as well as Homer, St. Augustine, and Hannah Arendt, this book argues that the generational parent-child dynamic is key to understanding the structure of novels, the theory of the state, and the events of history.

Table of Contents

Enigmatic Relations: The Novel and National Narratives
1(28)
``Till Reason Shall Take its Place'': Locke, Consent, and the Problem Child
29(38)
Rousseau and the National Child
67(50)
The child's Story and the Rise of the Novel
117(50)
Historicity, the Child, and Scott's Historical Novel
167(38)
Conclusion Children and Survival 205(18)
Index 223

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