Forms of empire : the poetics of Victorian sovereignty /
What is the difference between peace and war? In this far-reaching and provocative study, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed literary writers to expand the capacities of literary form. The Victorian Era is often imagined as an 'age of e...
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Reading Endless War
- Part. I. Equipoise: 1. Time and Violence in the Age of Equipoise ; 2. Reform Fiction's Logic of Belonging
- Part II. And Elsewhere: 3. Form and Excess, Morant Bay and Swinburne ; 4. The Philosophy of Romance Form
- Conclusion: Endless War Then and Now.
