Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia

In this groundbreaking collection, scholars explore Victorian xenophobia as a rhetorical strategy that transforms "foreign" people, bodies, and objects into perceived invaders with the dangerous power to alter the social fabric of the nation and the identity of the English. Essays in the collected edition look across the cultural landscape of the nineteenth century to trace the myriad tensions that gave rise to fear and loathing of immigrants, aliens, and ethnic/racial/religious others. This volume introduces new ways of reading the fear and loathing of all that was foreign in nineteenth-century British culture, and, in doing so, it captures nuances that often fall beyond the scope of current theoretical models. "Xenophobia" not only offers a distinctive theoretical lens through which to read the nineteenth century; it also advances and enriches our understanding of other critical approaches to the study of difference. Bringing together scholarship from art history, history, literary studies, cultural studies, women's studies, Jewish studies, and postcolonial studies, Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia seeks to open a rich and provocative dialogue on the global dimensions of xenophobia during the nineteenth century.

Author: Marlene Tromp
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 11/28/2016
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780814254288

About the Author
Marlene Tromp is professor of English and women and gender studies, andDean of the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. Maria K. Bachman is professor and chair in the Department of English at Coastal Carolina University. Heidi Kaufman is assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon."

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