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Hardcover Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty Book

ISBN: 019879245X

ISBN13: 9780198792451

Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty

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Forms of Empire 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 200 separate wars. What is the difference, though, between peace and war? The much-vaunted equipoise of the nineteenth-century state depended on physical force to guarantee it. But the sovereign...

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