Title Outlandish English subjects in the Victorian domestic novel / Timothy L. Carens

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) : illustrations Contents Bridging the Divide -- Strange Relations: Evangelical and Anthropological Roots of Imperial Anxiety -- The Juggernaut Roles in England: The Idol of Patriarchal Authority in Jane Eyre and The Egoist -- Failed Colonies in Africa and England: Civilizing Despair in Bleak House -- Mutinous Outbreaks in The Moonstone -- Portions Wholly Savage: Ongoing Reforms at Home and Abroad Summary In literature written in the latter half of the Nineteenth-Century, during the great age of the British Empire, savage antagonists crop up in unexpected places. The notion that savagery existed at a far remove was ironically counterbalanced by a suspicion that savagery lurked within the English state and subject. Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel traces the development of this suspicion in Nineteenth-Century Evangelicism and anthropology. Both disciplines promoted the idea of a universal human family, establishing a theoretical context in which estranged 'relatives', those beliefs and practises disparagingly associated with colonial otherness, might reappear within the English family home Victorian writers such as Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and George Meredith enact the distressing return of colonial otherness by using ethnographic descriptions of Africa and India to satirize the social scene at home. In their domestic novels, varieties of colonial otherness ironically infiltrate figures, institutions, and ideas perceived as bulwarks of Englishness Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Race in literature. Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism Difference (Psychology) in literature. Human skin color in literature. Imperialism in literature. Colonies in literature. Noncitizens in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Noncitizens in literature Colonies in literature Difference (Psychology) in literature Domestic fiction, English English fiction Human skin color in literature Imperialism in literature Race in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230501614 0230501613

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