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UNINA9910164941703321 |
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Autore |
Hensley Nathan |
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Titolo |
Forms of empire : the poetics of Victorian sovereignty / / Nathan K. Hensley [[electronic resource]] |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Sovereignty in literature |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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This edition previously issued in print: 2016. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Reading Endless War -- ; Part. I. Equipoise: ; 1. Time and Violence in the Age of Equipoise ; ; 2. Reform Fiction's Logic of Belonging -- ; Part II. And Elsewhere: ; 3. Form and Excess, Morant Bay and Swinburne ; ; 4. The Philosophy of Romance Form -- Conclusion: Endless War Then and Now. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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