LEADER 03188nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910463564103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-4203-X 010 $a0-8232-4660-4 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065559 035 $a(EBL)3239620 035 $a(OCoLC)923763604 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611737 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11394256 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611737 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10667178 035 $a(PQKB)10412891 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092897 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239620 035 $a(OCoLC)830023557 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14121 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239620 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539036 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065559 100 $a20111012d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe dream life of citizens$b[electronic resource] $elate Victorian novels and the fantasy of the state /$fZarena Aslami 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (199 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-4199-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aScholars 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 increasingl 517 3 $aVictorian novels and the fantasy of the state 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial problems in literature 606 $aState, The, in literature 607 $aAfghanistan$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 615 0$aState, The, in literature. 676 $a823/.8093581 700 $aAslami$b Zarena$0919872 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463564103321 996 $aThe dream life of citizens$92063224 997 $aUNINA