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100 1 $aGoodlad, Lauren M. E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002047480
245 10 $aVictorian literature and the Victorian state :$bcharacter and governance in a liberal society /$cLauren M.E. Goodlad.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2003.
300 $axv, 298 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-286) and index.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107031
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650 0 $aLiberalism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129626
650 0 $aSocial problems in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123990
650 0 $aState, The, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008748
650 0 $aLiberalism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006248
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102754
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1837-1901.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056914
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