LEADER 02054nam 2200457 450 001 9910164941703321 005 20210111163326.0 010 $a0-19-183444-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001041472 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001600611 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4799468 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001041472 100 $a20161027e20172016 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aForms of empire $ethe poetics of Victorian sovereignty /$fNathan K. Hensley$b[electronic resource] 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-19-879245-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tIntroduction: Reading Endless War --$gPart. I.$tEquipoise:$g1.$tTime and Violence in the Age of Equipoise ;$g2.$tReform Fiction's Logic of Belonging --$gPart II.$tAnd Elsewhere:$g3.$tForm and Excess, Morant Bay and Swinburne ;$g4.$tThe Philosophy of Romance Form --$tConclusion: Endless War Then and Now. 330 8 $aNathan 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSovereignty in literature 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSovereignty in literature. 676 $a820.9358109034 700 $aHensley$b Nathan$01185050 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910164941703321 996 $aForms of empire$92747574 997 $aUNINA