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1 online resource (xv, 298 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286) and index. |
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Beyond the panopticon : the critical challenge of a liberal society -- Making the working man like me : charity, the novel, and the new poor law -- Is there a pastor in the house? : sanitary reform and governing agency in Dickens's midcentury fiction -- An officer and a gentleman : civil service reform and the early career of Anthony Trollope -- A riddle without an answer : character and education in Our mutual friend -- Dueling pastors, dueling worldviews -- Social security. |
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"Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of power in modern societies. Yet, according to Lauren M.E. Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to that of nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing - from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Harriet Martineau, J.S. Mill, Anthony Trollope, and H.G. Wells to prominent social reformers such as Edwin Chadwick, Thomas Chalmers, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, and Beatrice Webb - Goodlad shows that Foucault's later essays on liberalism and "governmentality" provide better critical tools for understanding the nineteenth-century British state." "Victorian Literature and the Victorian State delves into contemporary debates over sanitary, education, and civil rights reform, the Poor Laws, and the century-long attempt to substitute organized charity for state services. Goodlad's readings elucidate the distinctive quandary of Victorian Britain and, indeed, any modern society conceived in liberal terms: the elusive quest for a "pastoral" agency that is rational, all-embracing, and effective but also anti-bureaucratic, personalized, and liberatory. In this study, impressively grounded in literary criticism, social history, and political theory, Goodlad offers a timely post-Foucauldian account of Victorian governance that speaks to the resurgent neoliberalism of our own day."--Jacket. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Literature and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and state. |
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Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Liberalism. |
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Social problems in literature.
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Social problems in literature. |
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State, The, in literature.
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State, The, in literature. |
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Liberalism in literature.
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Liberalism in literature. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901.
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Politics and government. |
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1837-1901 |
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1800-1901 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Print version: Goodlad, Lauren M.E. Victorian literature and the Victorian state. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2002154081 |
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0801881544 |
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9780801881541 |
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0801869633 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780801869631 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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