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Author: Lauren M. E. Goodlad (Professor of English and Criticism & Interpretive Theory and Provost Fellow for Undergraduate Education, University of Illinois, Urbana)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.704kg
ISBN: 9780198728276
ISBN 10: 0198728271
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 12 February 2015
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic brilliantly demonstrates that Victorian fiction articulated a sophisticated awareness of the world historical processes of capitalist expansion. With its masterful integration of social and political theory, Victorian politics, feminist theory, and ethics, this book will put Goodlad at the center of debates about Victorian realism, cultural politics, liberalism, and the relation between social theory and literary form. John Kucich, co-editor of The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820a1880 The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic enriches our view of Victorian realism by challenging the notion that the British novel becomes a stagnant backwater, cut off from history. Those who concern themselves with closing the gap between literary structure and cultural analysis will want to read this lucid, cogent, and illuminating book. Harry E. Shaw, author of Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic is an important and exciting addition to our understanding of the global character and transnational contexts of nineteenth-century literature. Lauren M. E. Goodlad's new study traverses and integrates ongoing conversations on literary form, political theory and cultural analysis to show how nineteenth-century realism grappled with capitalist globalization. Nirshan Perera, Dickens Quarterly Lauren Goodlad's work shows how archives change when we think in terms of the global ... Goodlad also makes newly vital to the field texts that have been historically understudied or recently neglected ... Her brilliant analysis of the Mad Men episode 'The Wheel' [demonstrates] the show's surprising, revelatory investments in Victorian concerns and aesthetics ... Goodlad's work also demonstrates that one of the most valuable aspects of a geographically expansive conception of Victorian studies is the imperative for scholars to address themselves not only to the world outside Britain but to fields and disciplines outside our own. Tanya Agathocleous, Victorian Literature & Culture The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic brilliantly demonstrates that Victorian fiction articulated a sophisticated awareness of the world historical processes of capitalist expansion. With its masterful integration of social and political theory, Victorian politics, feminist theory, and ethics, this book will put Goodlad at the center of debates about Victorian realism, cultural politics, liberalism, and the relation between social theory and literary form. John Kucich, co-editor of The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820a1880 The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic enriches our view of Victorian realism by challenging the notion that the British novel becomes a stagnant backwater, cut off from history. Those who concern themselves with closing the gap between literary structure and cultural analysis will want to read this lucid, cogent, and illuminating book. Harry E. Shaw, author of Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot Goodlad undertakes nothing less than a complete rethinking of the realist tradition, extending it toward modernism and the era of serially-driven televised media in which we live now. The sweep and scope of this work is breathtaking, both in its commitment to the recently challenged tactics of close reading and in its investment in twentieth and twenty-first century critical theory. Robert D. Aguirre, Victorian Studies Provides a masterful overview of the debates surrounding historical methodology since the dominance of New Historicism in the 1980s. Eleni Coundouriotis, MLQ Working within a theoretical framework built upon Fredric Jamesons notion of the geopolitical aesthetic and Carl Schmitts ... treatment of sovereignty, Goodlad complicates the relationship between liberalism and imperialism and sees realism not as a formally dull mirroring of a national moment but as an experimental exploration of globalized, transnational places, people, and powers. Jeffrey Cox, Studies in English Literature
Working within a theoretical framework built upon Fredric Jamesons notion of the geopolitical aesthetic and Carl Schmitts ... treatment of sovereignty, Goodlad complicates the relationship between liberalism and imperialism and sees realism not as a formally dull mirroring of a national moment but as an experimental exploration of globalized, transnational places, people, and powers. * Jeffrey Cox, Studies in English Literature * Provides a masterful overview of the debates surrounding historical methodology since the dominance of New Historicism in the 1980s. * Eleni Coundouriotis, MLQ * Goodlad undertakes nothing less than a complete rethinking of the realist tradition, extending it toward modernism and the era of serially-driven televised media in which we live now. The sweep and scope of this work is breathtaking, both in its commitment to the recently challenged tactics of close reading and in its investment in twentieth and twenty-first century critical theory. * Robert D. Aguirre, Victorian Studies * The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic enriches our view of Victorian realism by challenging the notion that the British novel becomes a stagnant backwater, cut off from history. Those who concern themselves with closing the gap between literary structure and cultural analysis will want to read this lucid, cogent, and illuminating book. * Harry E. Shaw, author of Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot * The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic brilliantly demonstrates that Victorian fiction articulated a sophisticated awareness of the world historical processes of capitalist expansion. With its masterful integration of social and political theory, Victorian politics, feminist theory, and ethics, this book will put Goodlad at the center of debates about Victorian realism, cultural politics, liberalism, and the relation between social theory and literary form. * John Kucich, co-editor of The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820a1880 * Lauren Goodlad's work shows how archives change when we think in terms of the global ... Goodlad also makes newly vital to the field texts that have been historically understudied or recently neglected ... Her brilliant analysis of the Mad Men episode 'The Wheel' [demonstrates] the show's surprising, revelatory investments in Victorian concerns and aesthetics ... Goodlad's work also demonstrates that one of the most valuable aspects of a geographically expansive conception of Victorian studies is the imperative for scholars to address themselves not only to the world outside Britain but to fields and disciplines outside our own. * Tanya Agathocleous, Victorian Literature & Culture * The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic is an important and exciting addition to our understanding of the global character and transnational contexts of nineteenth-century literature. Lauren M. E. Goodlad's new study traverses and integrates ongoing conversations on literary form, political theory and cultural analysis to show how nineteenth-century realism grappled with capitalist globalization. * Nirshan Perera, Dickens Quarterly * ... Now Lauren Goodlad and Nathan Hensley offer two new ways of understanding Victorian society's commitment to expansion, conquest, and domination, and Victorian literature's commitment to staying at home ... specialists in the Victorian era - like Goodlad and Hensley - have shown us a great deal about the way its literature reflects upon imperialism without ever going to the colonies. * Nasser Mufti, Review 19 *
Author Information
Lauren M. E. Goodlad is the Kathryn Paul Professorial of English and Criticism & Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana. She is the author of Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society as well as the co-edtior of several books and special issues including Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s and The Ends of History, a special issue of Victorian Studies. Her articles have appeared in journals including American Literary History, ELH, MLQ, Novel: A Forum on Fiction and PMLA.
