Table of Contents

Prologue 1: Toward a Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic 2: Imperial Sovereignty: The Limits of Liberalism and the Case of Mysore 3: Trollopian "Foreign Policy": Rootedness and Cosmopolitanism in the Mid- Victorian Global Imaginary 4: "India is 'a Bore'": Imperial Governmentality in The Eustace Diamonds 5: "Dark, Like Me": Archeology and Erfahrung in Armadale and The Moonstone 6: The Adulterous Geopolitical Aesthetic: Romola contra Madame Bovary 7: Where Liberals Fear to Tread: E. M. Forster's Queer Internationalism and the Ethics of Care 8: The Mad Men in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the Modern Babylon Coda: The Way We Historicize Now Prologue 1: Toward a Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic 2: Imperial Sovereignty: the Limits of Liberalism and the Case of Mysore 3: Trollopian "Foreign Policy": Rootedness and Cosmopolitanism in the Mid- Victorian Global Imaginary 4: "India is a Bore": Imperial Governmentality in The Eustace Diamonds 5: "Dark, Like Me": Archeology and Erfahrung in Armadale and The Moonstone 6: The Adulterous Geopolitical Aesthetic: Romola contra Madame Bovary 7: Where Liberals Fear to Tread: E. M. Forster's Queer Internationalism 8. The Mad Men in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the Narrative of Capitalist 8: The Mad Men in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the Narrative of Capitalist Globalization Coda: The Way We Historicize Now

About the Author

Lauren M. E. Goodlad is Kathryn Paul Professorial Scholar and Professor of English and Criticism & Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Reviews

`the dominance of New Historicism in the 1980s.' Eleni Coundouriotis, MLQ