| Description |
ix, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Coming to terms with xenophobia : fear and loathing in nineteenth-century England / Marlene Tromp, Maria Bachman, and Heidi Kaufman -- The pollution of the East : economic contamination and xenophobia in Little Dorrit and The mystery of Edwin Drood / Marlene Tromp -- Victorian quarantines : holding the borders against "fevered" Italian masculinity in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "St. Agnes of intercession" / Jay D. Sloan -- Contracting xenophobia : etiology, inoculation, and the limits of British imperialism / Rajani Sudan -- Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and the perils of imagined others / Maria K. Bachman -- Maudlin profanity and midnight debauchery : infanticide and the angelito / Jennifer Hayward -- Food, famine, and the abjection of Irish identity in Victorian representation / Charlotte Boyce -- "Wot is to be" : the visual construction of empire at the Crystal Palace exhibition, London, 1851 / Joy Sperling -- Terrible Turks : Victorian xenophobia and the Ottoman empire / Patrick Brantlinger -- Ethnicity as marker in Henry Mayhew's London labour and the London poor / Thomas Prasch -- Jewish space and the English foreigner in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda / Heidi Kaufman -- Exile London : anarchism, immigration, and xenophobia in late-Victorian literature / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller -- Xenophobia on the streets of London : Punch's campaign against Italian organ-grinders, 1854-1864 / Annmarie McCallister -- "You know not of what you speak" : language, identity, and xenophobia in Richard Marsh's The beetle : a mystery (1897) / Minna Vuohelainen -- Dracula's blood of many brave races / Thomas McLean -- Fear and loathing : Victorian xenophobia / Anne J. Kershen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Outsiders in literature.
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Prejudices in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Xenophobia -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
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Bachman, Maria K., 1963-
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Kaufman, Heidi, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2012017517 |
| ISBN |
9780814211953 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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081421195X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780814292969 (cd) |
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0814292968 (cd) |
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