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Gothic Invasions
- Imperialism, War and Fin-de-Siecle Popular Fiction
Engelsk Hardback
Gothic Invasions
- Imperialism, War and Fin-de-Siecle Popular Fiction
Engelsk Hardback

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What do tales of stalking vampires, restless Egyptian mummies, foreign master criminals, barbarian Eastern hordes and stomping Prussian soldiers have in common? As Gothic Invasions explains, they may all be seen as instances of invasion fiction, a paranoid fin-de-siècle popular literary phenomenon that responded to prevalent societal fears of the invasion of Britain by an array of hostile foreign forces in the period before the First World War. Gothic Invasions traces the roots of invasion anxiety to concerns about the downside of Britain’s continuing imperial expansion: fears of growing inter-European rivalry and colonial wars and rebellion. It explores how these fears circulated across the British empire and were expressed in fictional narratives drawing strongly upon and reciprocally transforming the conventions and themes of gothic writing. Gothic Invasions enhances our understanding of an aspect of the interchange between popular culture and politics at this crucial historical juncture, and demonstrates the instrumentality of the ever-versatile and politically-charged gothic mode in this process.
 
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781786832092
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1786832097
Udg. Dato:
1 apr 2018
Længde:
30mm
Bredde:
222mm
Højde:
145mm
Forlag:
University of Wales Press
Oplagsdato:
1 apr 2018
Forfatter(e):
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