The dream life of citizens [electronic resource] : late Victorian novels and the fantasy of the state / Zarena Aslami.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (195 p.)ISBN:- 9780823246601
- Social problems in literature
- State, The, in literature
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Grand, Sarah. Heavenly twins
- Gissing, George, 1857-1903. Odd women
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Woodlanders
- Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920. Story of an African farm
- Afghanistan -- In literature
- 823/.8093581 23
- PR878.P6 A85 2012
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.
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