03155nam 2200649Ia 450 991078867900332120230126211401.00-8232-4203-X0-8232-4660-4(CKB)3240000000065559(EBL)3239620(OCoLC)923763604(SSID)ssj0000611737(PQKBManifestationID)11394256(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611737(PQKBWorkID)10667178(PQKB)10412891(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092897(MiAaPQ)EBC3239620(OCoLC)830023557(MdBmJHUP)muse14121(Au-PeEL)EBL3239620(CaPaEBR)ebr10539036(EXLCZ)99324000000006555920111012d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe dream life of citizens[electronic resource] late Victorian novels and the fantasy of the state /Zarena AslamiNew York Fordham University Press20121 online resource (199 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-4199-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the lyricism of the State -- An imperial origin story : aloof rule in Schreiner's The story of an African farm -- "Rather a geographical expression than a country" : State fantasy and the production of Victorian Afghanistan -- The rise of The State as a sympathetic liberal subject in Hardy's The woodlanders -- The space of optimism : State fantasy and the case of Gissing's The odd women -- Hysterical citizenship in Grand's The heavenly twins -- Coda.Scholars have long argued that nations, as imagined communities, are constituted through the incitement of feelings and the operations of fantasy. Can we say the same about the set of disciplinary and regulatory institutions that we call the state? Can we think of it as constituted by feelings and fantasies, too? Zarena Aslami argues that late Victorian novels certainly did. Revisiting major works by Olive Schreiner, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing, among others, Aslami shows how novels dramatized the feelings and fantasies of a culture that was increasingly optimistic, as well as increasinglVictorian novels and the fantasy of the stateEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centurySocial problems in literatureState, The, in literatureAfghanistanIn literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistorySocial problems in literature.State, The, in literature.823/.8093581Aslami Zarena1496280MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788679003321The dream life of citizens3720868UNINA