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Autore: | Goodlad Lauren M. E |
Titolo: | Victorian literature and the Victorian state : character and governance in a liberal society / / Lauren M.E. Goodlad |
Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/358 |
Soggetto topico: | Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
Literature and state - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
Liberalism - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
Social problems in literature | |
State, The, in literature | |
Liberalism in literature | |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901 |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-286) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Beyond the Panopticon -- Making the Working Man Like Me -- Is There a Pastor in the House? -- An Officer and a Gentleman -- A Riddle without an Answer -- Dueling Pastors, Dueling Worldviews -- Epilogue: Social Security -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | In this study, impressively grounded in literary criticism, social history, and political theory, Goodlad offers a timely post-Foucauldian account of Victorian governance that speaks to the resurgent neoliberalism of our own day. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Victorian literature and the Victorian State |
ISBN: | 0-8018-8154-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910806283403321 |
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