British Fiction and the Production of Social Order 1740-1830

In British Fiction and the Production of Social Order Miranda Burgess examines what Romantic-period writers called romance. Reading a broad range of fictional and nonfictional works published between 1740 and 1830 Burgess places authors such as Richardson Scott Austen and Wollstonecraft in a new economic social and cultural context. She argues that the romance held a key role in remaking the national order of a Britain dependent on ideologies of human nature for justification of its social economic and political systems.