02054nam 2200457 450 991016494170332120210111163326.00-19-183444-0(CKB)3710000001041472(StDuBDS)EDZ0001600611(MiAaPQ)EBC4799468(EXLCZ)99371000000104147220161027e20172016 fy| 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierForms of empire the poetics of Victorian sovereignty /Nathan K. Hensley[electronic resource]First edition.Oxford :Oxford University Press,2017.1 online resource illustrations (black and white)This edition previously issued in print: 2016.0-19-879245-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSovereignty in literatureCriticism, interpretation, etc.fastEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Sovereignty in literature.820.9358109034Hensley Nathan1185050StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910164941703321Forms of empire2747574UNINA