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Victorian Literature and the State: Character Governance a Liberal Society

Current price: $55.00
Victorian Literature and the State: Character Governance a Liberal Society
Victorian Literature and the State: Character Governance a Liberal Society

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Victorian Literature and the State: Character Governance a Liberal Society

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delves into contemporary debates over sanitary, education, and civil service 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.

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