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Geopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011 /
"Literary 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 envis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; GEOPOLITICS AND THE ANGLOPHONE NOVEL, 1890-2011; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The novel's administrative turn; CHAPTER 1: Fiction after liberalism; CHAPTER 2: How literature administers "failed" states; FAILURE IS NORMAL; FAILURE IN FICTION; THE AUTHOR-FUNCTION OF STATE; EXPERTS IN ATROCITY; CHAPTER 3: The novelistic management of inequality in the age of meritocracy; WE ARE ALL EXPERTS; REFORMING RESEARCH; IMPERIAL FEELING; HUMANITIES AMIDST HIERARCHIES; CHAPTER 4: Entrepreneurship and imperial politics in twentieth-century historical fiction.
- WORLD-HISTORICAL NETWORKINGGLOBAL CLANS; COLONIAL RISK; CHAPTER 5: Women as economic actors in contemporary and modernist novels; THE FEMINIZATION OF GLOBALIZATION; WOMEN WHO NETWORK; AFTER THE DOMESTIC WOMAN; SISTERS AT WORK; Postscript: The literary politics of being well attached; Bibliography; Index.