British Literature and the Life of Institutions

British Literature and the Life of Institutions

Speculative States

Kohlmann, Benjamin

Oxford University Press

11/2021

288

Dura

Inglês

9780198836179

15 a 20 dias

558

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Introduction: Thinking the State (Again)
1: Literature as Speculative Thought: Britain's Long Hegelian Moment, c.1900
2: "The Hope of Pessimism": George Gissing, Mary Ward, and the Idea of an Institution
3: "True Ownership": Edward Carpenter and the Nationalization of Land
4: "Kinetic" Reform: H. G. Wells and Redistributive Taxation
5: Welfare State Romance: E. M. Forster and Unemployment Insurance
Coda: Reformist Legacies