Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society by Goodlad, Lauren M. E.

Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780801869631)

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Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society by Goodlad, Lauren M. E.

Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society

$55.00
Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society by Goodlad, Lauren M. E.

Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society

$55.00
Format: Hardcover
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In this manuscript, Lauren Goodlad looks at Victorian literature as the means for a post-Foucauldian study of Victorian culture, arguing that Victorian Britain was a liberal society. She explores diverse works of Victorian literature as they converged with major developments in the modernization of the British state. In so doing, she relays literature's relation to developments that have long occupied social historians including poor law, sanitary, educational, and civil service reforms, and the substitution of organized charity for the state. Each chapter takes up a contentious aspect of the Victorian state, linking debates over governance to major works by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, John Stuart Mills, and others.

Author: Lauren M. E. Goodlad
ISBN-10: 0801869633
ISBN-13: 9780801869631
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2003
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.36w x 1.07d

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Choice 06/01/2004 pg. 1880
By Lauren M. E. Goodlad
By Lauren M. E. Goodlad
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Lauren M. E. Goodlad is an associate professor of English at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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