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Victorian literature and the Victorian state : character and governance in a liberal society /

"Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of power in modern societies. Yet, according to Lauren M.E. Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to that...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Goodlad, Lauren M. E.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2003.
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Table des matières:
  • Beyond the panopticon : the critical challenge of a liberal society
  • Making the working man like me : charity, the novel, and the new poor law
  • Is there a pastor in the house? : sanitary reform and governing agency in Dickens's midcentury fiction
  • An officer and a gentleman : civil service reform and the early career of Anthony Trollope
  • A riddle without an answer : character and education in Our mutual friend
  • Dueling pastors, dueling worldviews
  • Social security.