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Author Callanan, Laura

Title Deciphering race : white anxiety, racial conflict, and the turn to fiction in mid-Victorian English prose / Laura Callanan
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 185 pages)
Contents Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index
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Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Race in literature.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Race relations in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Racism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
English fiction
Imperialism in literature
Literature and society
Race in literature
Race relations in literature
Racism in literature
Kolonialismus Motiv
Roman
Rassenbeziehung (Motiv)
Great Britain
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005018917
ISBN 0814272665
9780814272664