Forms of empire : the poetics of Victorian sovereignty /

Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed literary writers of the Victorian era to expand the capacities of literary form. He explores the works of some of the era's most astute thinkers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Robert Lou...

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Weitere Titel:
Introduction: Reading Endless War --
Equipoise:
Time and Violence in the Age of Equipoise ;
Reform Fiction's Logic of Belonging --
And Elsewhere:
Form and Excess, Morant Bay and Swinburne ;
The Philosophy of Romance Form --
Conclusion: Endless War Then and Now.
1. Verfasser:
Hensley, Nathan
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed literary writers of the Victorian era to expand the capacities of literary form. He explores the works of some of the era's most astute thinkers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-183444-0
Schlagworte:
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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