Description: Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic : Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience, Hardcover by Goodlad, Lauren M. E., ISBN 0198728271, ISBN-13 9780198728276, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 th places realism's "geopolitical aesthetic" at the heart of recurring modern experiences of breached sovereignty, forgottenhistory, and subjective exile. The Coda, titled "The Way We Historicize Now," concludes th with connections to recent debates about "surface reading" "distant reading," and the hermeneutics of suspicion.
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Book Title: Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic : Realism, Sovereignty, and Tran
Number of Pages: 364 Pages
Publication Name: Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic : Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 24.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
