Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty

ISBN-13: 9780198830740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str.

Nathan K. Hensley

Opis

In this far-reaching and provocative study, 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.

Recenzje

A gripping, at times formidable, study that consistently and inventively gauges the depth to which in Victorian Britain the liberal state (of mind, of nationhood) was infused by its reprobated and ostensibly superseded opposite: the infliction of brutal violence on subjected bodies around the imperial globe ... This book is going to get noticed.

O autorze

Nathan K. Hensley is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. His writing has appeared in Victorian Studies, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Victorian Periodicals Review, The Stanford Arcade, and other venues.