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9780823246601 |
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0823246604 |
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1 online resource (199 pages) |
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Gissing, George, 1857-1903. Odd women.
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Grand, Sarah. Heavenly twins.
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Woodlanders.
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Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920. Story of an African farm.
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Social problems in literature.
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State, The, in literature.
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Afghanistan -- In literature.
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| Contents |
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- An Imperial Origin Story -- ��Rather a Geographical Expression Than a Country�� -- The Rise of the State as a Sympathetic Liberal Subject In Hardy's The Woodlanders -- The Space of Optimism -- Hysterical Citizenship in Grand�s The Heavenly Twins -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Scholars have long argued that nations, as imagined communities, are constituted through the incitement of feelings and the operations of fantasy. Can we say the same about the set of disciplinary and regulatory institutions that we call the state? Can we think of it as constituted by feelings and fantasies, too? Zarena Aslami argues that late Victorian novels certainly did. Revisiting major works by Olive Schreiner, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing, among others, Aslami shows how novels dramatized the feelings and fantasies of a culture that was increasingly optimistic, as well as increasingl. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
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English. |
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Available electronically via the Internet |
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