Literature Politics & Theory - 9780415291279

Taylor & Francis

First Published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. \u2018New Accents\u2019 is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. The present selection of papers, made from nearly two hundred published, represents in some measure the diversity of the work at the eight Essex Sociology of Literature Conferences. > Chapter 1 Forms of English fiction in 1848, Raymond Williams; Chapter 2 Baudelaire and the city: 1848 and the inscription of hegemony, Colin Mercer; Chapter 3 Religion and ideology: a political reading of Paradise Lost, Fredric Jameson; Chapter 4 The Romantic construction of the unconscious, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 5 The trial of Warren Hastings, David Musselwhite; Cha