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“The bourgeois nature in difficulties”: The crisis of liberalism in Robert Browning's Aristophanes’ Apology
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Nathan K. Hensley's recent study, Forms of Empire (2016), posits that liberalism, as the nineteenth century progressed, came up against the “wayward meanings” generated by its own contradictions, particularly the “curious intimacy between legality and harm” that characterized a doctrine of individual freedom inextricably rooted in violent imperial expansion. For Hensley, “the dogged persistence of killing in an age of liberty disrupted the conceptual assumptions of progressive idealism”; whil...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 339.3KB)
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- 10.1017/S1060150319000172
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- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Victorian Literature and Culture Journal website
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 551-575
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-10-23
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1470-1553
- ISSN:
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1060-1503
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- English
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- 2018-10-31
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- 2020
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150319000172
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