TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aslami,Zarena
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The dream life of citizens: late Victorian novels and the fantasy of the state 
SN  - 9780823246601
AV  - PR878.P6 A85 2012
U1  - 823/.8093581 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Grand, Sarah.
KW  - Gissing, George,
KW  - Hardy, Thomas,
KW  - Schreiner, Olive,
KW  - Social problems in literature
KW  - State, The, in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - In literature
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823246601/
ER  -