Geopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011 [electronic resource] / John Marx.
2012
PN51 .M278 2012eb
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Geopolitics and the Anglophone novel, 1890-2011 [electronic resource] / John Marx.
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9781139380348 electronic book
1139380346 electronic book
9781107020313
110702031X
1139380346 electronic book
9781107020313
110702031X
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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English
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1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
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PN51 .M278 2012eb
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809/.93358
Summary
"Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in Utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale. Marx shows how literature can make an important contribution to political and social sciences by creating a space to imagine and experiment with social organization"-- Provided by publisher.
"Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011 Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale."-- Provided by publisher.
"Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011 Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, and Rabindrananth Tagore helped forecast world government after European imperialism. Twenty-first-century novelists such as Monica Ali, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh have inherited that legacy and continue to criticize existing policies in order to formulate best practices on a global scale."-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: the novel's administrative turn
1. Fiction after liberalism
2. How literature administers 'failed' states
3. The novelistic management of inequality in the age of meritocracy
4. Entrepreneurship and imperial politics in twentieth-century historical fiction
5. Women as economic actors in contemporary and modernist novels
Postscript: the literary politics of being well attached.
1. Fiction after liberalism
2. How literature administers 'failed' states
3. The novelistic management of inequality in the age of meritocracy
4. Entrepreneurship and imperial politics in twentieth-century historical fiction
5. Women as economic actors in contemporary and modernist novels
Postscript: the literary politics of being well attached.