Forms of empire the poetics of Victorian sovereignty
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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| 520 | |a 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 equipoise,' but the period between 1837 and 1901 included more than two hundred separate armed conflicts: the first liberal state in history brought the world to order with hands stained in blood. Hensley unpacks the seeming paradoxes of the Pax Britannica's endless war by showing that the equipoise of the Victorian state depended on physical force to guarantee it. While inherent to all law, sovereign violence shuddered most visibly into being at the edges of law's reach, in the Empire, where emergency was the rule and death perversely routinized. Hensley tracks some of the era's most astute literary thinkers-George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, A.C. Swinburne, H. Rider Haggard, and Robert Louis Stevenson among them-as they generated techniques of representation that might account for fact that an empire built on freedom had the threat of death coiled at its very heart.0Free indirect discourse, lyric tension, and the category of novelistic action itself: these and other seemingly 'aesthetic' matters, Hensley shows, in fact mediate a problem that was finally political, yet unthinkable from within the assumptions of orthodox Victorian theory. In contrast to the progressive idealism that remains our common sense, the writers at the core of Forms of Empire moved beyond embarrassment and denial in the face of modernity's uncanny relation to killing. Drawing on robust archival work, careful literary analyses, and a theoretical framework that troubles the distinction between 'historicist' and 'formalist' approaches, Forms of Empire links the Victorian period to the present and articulates a forceful vision of why literary thinking matters now | ||
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| adam_text | 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 1 837 and 1 901 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 violence hidden in the shadows of
ail law shuddered most visibly into being at the edges of law s reach, in the Empire,
where emergency was the rule and death perversely routinized. George Eliot, Charles
Dickens, Wilkie Collins, A. C. Swinburne, H. Rider Haggard, and Robert Louis Stevenson,
among others, all generated new formal techniques to account for the sometimes
sickening interplay between order and force in their liberal Empire, in contrast to
the progressive idealism we have inherited from the Victorians, these writers moved
beyond embarrassment and denial in the face of modernity s uncanny relation to
killing. They sought aesthetic effects—free indirect discourse, lyric tension, and the
idea of literary character itself—able to render thinkable the conceptual vertigoes
of liberal violence. In so doing, they touched to the dark core of our post-Victorian
modernity. Archival work, literary analyses, and a theoretical framework that troubles
the distinction between historicist and formalist approaches helps this book link
the Victorian period to the present and articulate a forceful vision of why literary
thinking matters now.
Contents
List of Figures xi
Introduction: Reading Endless War 1
Mutiny All But Universal 1
From Reflection to Mediation 13
Unburial Grounds 20
Equipoise and Elsewhere 32
PARTI. EQUIPOISE
1. Time and Violence in the Age of Equipoise 39
Geological Liberalism and Slow Time 39
Countryside Gradualism: The Mill on the Floss I 43
Liberal Time c.1859: Henry Maine and John Stuart Mill 30
Countryside Catastrophism: The Mill on the Floss II 63
On Nai ve and Sentimental Novels: Schiller and the Pleasures
of the Past 75
2. Reform Fiction s Logic of Belonging 85
Becoming General: The Census 85
A Rule of Equations/MilPs Logic 92
“Count of Heads”: Inductive Democracy 98
Torn from the List of the Living: The Woman in White 102
Armadale and the Character of Reform 1 11
Cliche as Form: “The civilized universe knows it already” 114
Becoming Singular: Dickens Ejecta 126
PART II. AND ELSEWHERE
3. Form and Excess, Morant Bay and Swinburne 137
The Language Circumstances Require: TWo Instances 137
Ballads of Life and Death 140
“Licking at the police”: The Jamaica Rebellion 142
“Superflux of pain”: Poems and Ballads 1 148
“Out there, you see real government”: Mill avec Stephen 167
“Indifference was impossible to him”: Swinburne’s Blake 172
“Cases of extreme exigency”: Mill’s Exceptions 178
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Contents
The Laws of Meter: Lyric as Thought 184
Historical Tropes 190
4. The Philosophy of Romance Form 194
System, Exemplum, Impcrium 194
Realism Wars: James/Howells, Lang/Haggard 200
“Kill! Kill! Kill! ’: King Solomon s Mihes I 210
Just War, Unjust Enemies: Transvaal c. 1885 221
“Almost unbounded rights of sovereignty”:
King Solomon ’$ Mines II 226
“As good as Homer!”: Andrew Lang’s Epic Form 231
Radically Both: Stevenson’s Strange Case 238
Conclusion: Endless War Then and Now 243
Notes 247
References 273
Index 297
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