Outlandish English subjects in the Victorian domestic novel
By: Timothy L. Carens.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: 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.; Aliens in literature.
Description: "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 counter-balanced by a suspicion that it 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 practices disparagingly associated with colonial otherness, might reappear within the English family home."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.