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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157838503321

Autore

Goodlad Lauren M. E

Titolo

The Victorian geopolitical aesthetic : realism, sovereignty, and transnational experience

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-179449-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

820.91209034

Soggetti

English fiction - History and criticism - 19th century

Realism in literature

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Toward a Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic -- Imperial Sovereignty: The Limits of Liberalism and the Case of Mysore -- Trollopian "Foreign Policy": Rootedness and Cosmopolitanism in the Mid-Victorian Global Imaginary -- "India is 'a Bore'": Imperial Governmentality in The Eustace Diamonds -- "Dark, Like Me": Archeology and Erfahrung in Wilkie Collins's Armadale and The Moonstone -- The Adulterous Geopolitical Aesthetic: Romola contra Madame Bovary -- Where Liberals Fear to Tread: E.M. Forster's Queer Internationalism and the Ethics of Care -- The Mad Men in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the Modern Babylon -- Coda: The Way We Historicize Now.

Sommario/riassunto

How did realist narrative alter in the effort to craft forms and genres receptive to the dynamism of an expanding empire and globalizing world? Do these nineteenth-century variations on the 'geopolitical aesthetic' continue to resonate today? Crossing literary criticism, political theory, and longue dureĢe history, 'The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic' explores these questions from the standpoint of mid-nineteenth-century novelists such as Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Anthony Trollope, as well as successors including E.M. Forster and the creators of recent television serials.