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Auteur(s) : Goodlad, Lauren M. E. (1961-....)
Titre(s) : The Victorian geopolitical aesthetic [Texte imprimé] : realism, sovereignty, and transnational experience / Lauren M.E. Goodlad
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : Toward a Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic ; Imperial Sovereignty: The Limits of
Liberalism and the Case of Mysore ; Trollopian "Foreign Policy": Rootedness and Cosmopolitanism
in the Mid-Victorian Global Imaginary ; "India is 'a Bore'": Imperial Governmentality
in The Eustace Diamonds ; "Dark, Like Me": Archeology and Erfahrung in Wilkie Collins's
Armadale and The Moonstone ; The Adulterous Geopolitical Aesthetic: Romola contra
Madame Bovary ; Where Liberals Fear to Tread: E.M. Forster's Queer Internationalism
and the Ethics of Care ; The Mad Men in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the
Modern Babylon ; Coda: The Way We Historicize Now.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
How did realist fiction alter in the effort to craft forms and genres receptive to
the dynamism of an expanding empire and globalizing world? Do these nineteenth-century
variations on the "geopolitical aesthetic" continue to resonate today? Crossing literary
criticism, political theory, and longue duree history, 'The Victorian geopolitical
aesthetic' explores these questions from the standpoint of mid-nineteenth-century
novelists such as Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Anthony Trollope
as well as successors including E. M. Forster and the creators of recent television
serials. By looking at the category of "sovereignty" at multiple scales and in diverse
formal, geographic, and historical contexts, Lauren M. E. Goodlad shows that the ideological
crucible for "high" realism was not a hegemonic liberalism. It was, rather, a clash
of modern liberal ideals struggling to distintricate themselves from a powerful conservative
vision of empire while striving to negotiate the inequalities of power along lines
of race, gender, nationality, and ethnicity which a supposedly universalistic liberalism
had helped to generate. The material occasion for the mid-Victorian era's rich realist
experiments was, thus, the transition from an informal empire of trade that could
be celebrated as "liberal" to a neo-feudal imperialism that only Tories could warmly
embrace. In this way the book places realism's "geopolitical aesthetic" at the heart
of recurring modern experiences of breached sovereignty, forgotten history, and subjective
exile. The Coda, titled "The Way We Historicize Now," concludes the book with connections
to recent debates about "surface reading" "distant reading," and the hermeneutics
of suspicion
Sujet(s) : Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle
Réalisme (littérature)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198728276. - ISBN 0198728271
EAN 9780198728276
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44283047d
Notice n° :
FRBNF44283047
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