Conservative

Alex Murray

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Conservative

Alex Murray

School of Arts, English and Languages

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The conservative—as both a philosophy and a political ideology—was radically unstable in the Victorian period, and so too were its manifestations in the literary sphere. However, as one of the keynotes of Victorian politics, life, and literature, it raises some serious questions about the consequences for our scholarship that it remains relatively neglected and undertheorized. We should train ourselves to read for the conservative alongside the liberal, to see how conservative aesthetics shape writers and texts in myriad ways.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	371-374
Number of pages	4
Journal	Victorian Literature and Culture
Volume	51
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150323000025
Publication status	Published - 18 Sept 2023

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conservative
literary studies
Victorian

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