The Imperial World-System and Cultures of Dissent in Thomas Hardy's Fiction
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The Imperial World-System and Cultures of Dissent in Thomas Hardy's Fiction
About this book
This is the first book-length study of imperial crossings in Thomas Hardy's novels and short stories. Combining the strengths of world-literary and world-systems analyses with a cultural materialist approach, the study offers unparalleled coverage of global links in Hardy's fiction, engaging, in addition, with a range of dissenting responses â at both formal and thematic registers â to the British world-system's exploitative structures. Hardy's prose outputs reveal that the empire, contrary to popular critical assumptions in postcolonial studies, did not harmonise the classes, genders or regions into a shared national imperial identity, culture or destiny. A major component of the study additionally includes comparative readings of the 'modern' world-system and imperial sociality in writings by Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rudyard Kipling, David Livingstone, and in Chartist poetry.The book will be an invaluable resource to teachers, students and enthusiasts working in the field of world literature, and in Victorian, postcolonial and settlercolonial studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction: The Imperial World-System and Cultures of Dissent in Thomas Hardyâs Fiction
- 2. Commodity Frontiers, Imperial Meritocracy, Army Service: The Alienation of Artisanal Labour
- 3. Imperial Adventure, Finance Capital, Cosmopolitanism: The Oppression of Women
- 4. âFailedâ Emigration, Transportation, Settler Patriarchy: The Dispossession of Agricultural Labour
- 5. Conclusion: Unevenness in Hardy and World-Literary Studies
- Back Matter