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The dream life of citizens : late Victorian novels and the fantasy of the state / Zarena Aslami.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aslami, Zarena.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Social problems in literature.
- State, The, in literature.
- Afghanistan--In literature.
- Afghanistan.
- Gissing, George, 1857-1903. Odd women.
- Gissing, George.
- Grand, Sarah. Heavenly twins.
- Grand, Sarah.
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Woodlanders.
- Hardy, Thomas.
- Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920. Story of an African farm.
- Schreiner, Olive.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Victorian novels and the fantasy of the state
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Introduction : the lyricism of the State
- An imperial origin story : aloof rule in Schreiner's The story of an African farm
- "Rather a geographical expression than a country" : State fantasy and the production of Victorian Afghanistan
- The rise of The State as a sympathetic liberal subject in Hardy's The woodlanders
- The space of optimism : State fantasy and the case of Gissing's The odd women
- Hysterical citizenship in Grand's The heavenly twins
- Coda.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4203-X
- 0-8232-4660-4
- OCLC:
- 923763604
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