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Dream Life of Citizens : Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State.
Scholars 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 f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Scholars 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (199 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823246601 0823246604 |