LEADER 03600nam 22007212 450 001 9910452029603321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-139-36632-7 010 $a1-107-23129-9 010 $a1-280-64767-1 010 $a9786613633729 010 $a1-139-37891-0 010 $a1-139-09715-6 010 $a1-139-37605-5 010 $a1-139-37748-5 010 $a1-139-37206-8 010 $a1-139-38034-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000103459 035 $a(EBL)880763 035 $a(OCoLC)794327759 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000656149 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11408823 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656149 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10634596 035 $a(PQKB)11084710 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139097154 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC880763 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL880763 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565032 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL363372 035 $a(OCoLC)794411730 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000103459 100 $a20110623d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGeopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011 /$fJohn Marx$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-02031-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: the novel's administrative turn -- 1. Fiction after liberalism -- 2. How literature administers 'failed' states -- 3. The novelistic management of inequality in the age of meritocracy -- 4. Entrepreneurship and imperial politics in twentieth-century historical fiction -- 5. Women as economic actors in contemporary and modernist novels -- Postscript: the literary politics of being well attached. 330 $aLiterary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in Utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale. Marx shows how literature can make an important contribution to political and social sciences by creating a space to imagine and experiment with social organization. 517 3 $aGeopolitics & the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGeopolitics in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGeopolitics in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 676 $a809/.93358 700 $aMarx$b John$0698929 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452029603321 996 $aGeopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011$92464718 997 $aUNINA