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The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic - Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience (Hardcover)
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The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic - Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience (Hardcover)
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How did realist fiction alter in the effort to craft forms and
genres receptive to the dynamism of an expanding empire and
globalizing world? Do these nineteenth-century variations on the
"geopolitical aesthetic" continue to resonate today? Crossing
literary criticism, political theory, and longue duree history, The
Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic explores these questions from the
standpoint of nineteenth-century novelists such as Wilkie Collins,
George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Anthony Trollope, as well as
successors including E. M. Forster and the creators of recent
television serials. By looking at the category of "sovereignty" at
multiple scales and in diverse contexts, Lauren M. E. Goodlad shows
that the ideological crucible for "high" realism was not a
hegemonic liberalism. It was, rather, a clash of modern liberal
ideals struggling to distintricate themselves from a powerful
conservative vision of empire while striving to negotiate the
inequalities of power which a supposedly universalistic liberalism
had helped to generate. The material occasion for the Victorian
era's rich realist experiments was the long transition from an
informal empire of trade that could be celebrated as liberal to a
neo-feudal imperialism that only Tories could warmly embrace. The
book places realism's geopolitical aesthetic at the heart of
recurring modern experiences of breached sovereignty, forgotten
history, and subjective exile. The Coda, titled "The Way We
Historicize Now", concludes the study with connections to recent
debates about "surface reading", "distant reading", and the
hermeneutics of suspicion.
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