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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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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