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Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel

Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel

Description

Victorian domestic novels routinely detect a savage otherness lurking within the English state and subject. Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel charts the development of this irony within evangelical and anthropological discourses and studies its emergence in the major works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and George Meredith. Each of these writers disrupts the certitudes of imperial ideology by appropriating the language of ethnography and using it to describe the social domestic field. Providing fresh readings of both canonical and neglected novels, this original volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Nineteenth-Century literature and Postcolonial studies.

Keywords

Literary CriticismModern19th CenturyFictionEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative

2005Book

Author(s)Timothy L. Carens

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9781403946508

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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