Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society

by Lauren M.E. Goodlad

Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing--from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801869633
• ISBN13: 9780801869631
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher