Name: Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (en Inglés)
SKU: 51239180
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Author: Nathan K. Hensley
ISBN: 9780198830740

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Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Nathan K. Hensley

Categoría

Literatura

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780198830740

Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (en Inglés)

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Forms of Empire shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form. The Victorian era is often imagined as an 'age of equipoise,' but the period between 1837 and 1901 included more than 200 separate wars. What is the difference, though, between peace and war? The much-vaunted equipoise of the nineteenth-century state depended on physical force to guarantee it. But the sovereign violence hidden in the shadows of all law shuddered most visibly into being at the edges of law's reach, in the Empire, where emergency was the rule and death perversely routinized. George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, A. C. Swinburne, H. Rider Haggard, and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others, all generated new formal techniques to account for the sometimes sickening interplay between order and force in their liberal Empire. In contrast to the progressive idealism we have inherited from the Victorians, these writers moved beyond embarrassment and denial in the face of modernity's uncanny relation to killing. They sought aesthetic effects―free indirect discourse, lyric tension, and the idea of literary 'character' itself―able to render thinkable the conceptual vertigoes of liberal violence. In so doing, they touched the dark core of our post-Victorian modernity. Archival work, literary analyses, and a theoretical framework that troubles the distinction between 'historicist' and 'formalist' approaches helps this book link the Victorian period to the present and articulate a forceful vision of why literary thinking matters now.