Forms Of Empire: The Poetics Of Victorian Sovereignty - 9780198792451

Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed literary writers of the Victorian era to expand the capacities of literary form. He explores the works of some of the era's most astute thinkers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

• | Author: Nathan K. Hensley
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 17, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 325 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 019879245X
• | ISBN-13: 9780198792451