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Forms of empire : the poetics of Victorian sovereignty /

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What is the difference between peace and war? In this far-reaching and provocative study, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed literary writers to expand the capacities of literary form. The Victorian Era is often imagined as an 'age of e...

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Main Author: Hensley, Nathan K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Sovereignty in literature.
English literature.
Englisch.
Gewalt > Motiv.
Krieg. > Motiv.
Literatur.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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