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• catalog abstract ""Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of power in modern societies. Yet, according to Lauren M.E. Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to that of nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing - from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Harriet Martineau, J.S. Mill, Anthony Trollope, and H.G. Wells to prominent social reformers such as Edwin Chadwick, Thomas Chalmers, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, and Beatrice Webb - Goodlad shows that Foucault's later essays on liberalism and "governmentality" provide better critical tools for understanding the nineteenth-century British state." "Victorian Literature and the Victorian State delves into contemporary debates over sanitary, education, and civil rights 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
• catalog contributor b13093318.
• catalog coverage "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901.".
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description ""Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of power in modern societies. Yet, according to Lauren M.E. Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to that of nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing - from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Harriet Martineau, J.S. Mill, Anthony Trollope, and H.G. Wells to prominent social reformers such as Edwin Chadwick, Thomas Chalmers, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, and Beatrice Webb - Goodlad shows that Foucault's later essays on liberalism and "governmentality" provide better critical tools for understanding the nineteenth-century British state." "Victorian Literature and the Victorian State delves into contemporary debates over sanitary, education, and civil rights 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Beyond the panopticon : the critical challenge of a liberal society -- Making the working man like me : charity, the novel, and the new poor law -- Is there a pastor in the house? : sanitary reform and governing agency in Dickens's midcentury fiction -- An officer and a gentleman : civil service reform and the early career of Anthony Trollope -- A riddle without an answer : character and education in Our mutual friend -- Dueling pastors, dueling worldviews -- Social security.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-286) and index.".
• catalog extent "xv, 298 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Victorian literature and the Victorian state.".
• catalog identifier "0801869633 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Victorian literature and the Victorian state.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog relation "Victorian literature and the Victorian state.".
• catalog spatial "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog subject "820.9/358 21".
• catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Liberalism Great Britain History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Liberalism in literature.".
• catalog subject "Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Literature and state Great Britain History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "PR468.P57 G66 2003".
• catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Social problems in literature.".
• catalog subject "State, The, in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Beyond the panopticon : the critical challenge of a liberal society -- Making the working man like me : charity, the novel, and the new poor law -- Is there a pastor in the house? : sanitary reform and governing agency in Dickens's midcentury fiction -- An officer and a gentleman : civil service reform and the early career of Anthony Trollope -- A riddle without an answer : character and education in Our mutual friend -- Dueling pastors, dueling worldviews -- Social security.".
• catalog title "Victorian literature and the Victorian state : character and governance in a liberal society / Lauren M.E. Goodlad.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".