The Dream Life of Citizens : : Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State / / Zarena Aslami.
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 f...
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Aslami, Zarena, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Dream Life of Citizens : Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State / Zarena Aslami. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022] ©2012 1 online resource (195 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Lyricism of the State -- 1 An Imperial Origin Story: Aloof Rule in Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm -- 2 ‘‘Rather a Geographical Expression Than a Country’’ State Fantasy and the Production of Victorian Afghanistan -- 3 The Rise of the State as a Sympathetic Liberal Subject in Hardy’s The Woodlanders -- 4 The Space of Optimism: State Fantasy and the Case of Gissing’s The Odd Women -- 5 Hysterical Citizenship in Grand’s The Heavenly Twins -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 increasingly anxious, about the state’s capacity to “step in” and help its citizens achieve the good life. In this study of late Victorian culture, Aslami reveals how a historically specific and intriguing fantasy of the state was thought to animate citizens’ psychic lives. This fantasy starred the modern state as a heroic actor with whom one has a relationship and from whom one desires something. While she tracks fantasies of the state in political writing, Aslami argues that novels were a privileged site for meditating on its more tragic implications. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110707298 print 9780823241996 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292875 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823292875 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823292875/original |
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