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• Title:Twisted words : torture and liberalism in imperial Britain / Katherine Judith Anderson.
  
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• Variant Title:Torture and liberalism in imperial Britain
  
• Author/Creator:Anderson, Katherine J., author.
  
• Published/Created:Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR461 .A53 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Torture in literature--19th century.
  English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
  Liberalism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
  Liberalism in literature.
  Phenomenology and literature.
  Rhetoric--Great Britain--19th century.
  
• Description:xi, 214 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Analyzes canonical novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and George Meredith as well as lesser-known fiction and historical documents via critical terrorism studies and political, legal, and phenomenological theory to establish how the Victorians ushered in our modern definition of torture"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-202) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780814215128 (cloth)
  0814215122 (cloth)
  9780814282021 (ebook)
  0814282024 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Church: Sensory Liberalism and Liturgies of Torture
  ch. 2 Imperial Bureaucracy: Liberal Modernity and the Banality of Empire
  ch. 3 Military: Liberal Citizens Versus Military Habitus
  ch. 4 Family: Gendered Liberalism and Patriarchal Sovereignty
  ch. 5 Settler: Liberal Sovereignty and Vigilante Terrorism.