The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty
by
Nathan K. Hensley
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form. The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837 and 1901 included more than two hundred separate...