Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

by Mary Gossy

Literature gives access to the "verge," to the place where the full terror of falling is felt, and yet both feet are still on the ground. Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown offers pleasurable instruction to readers who want to know and feel their ways through and beyond disciplinary conventions towards new and clearer understandings of how empires and texts shiver and fall, and why. Literature makes a difference to the ways that these questions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846311829
• ISBN13: 9781846311826
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"