Fear, loathing, and Victorian xenophobia
By: Edited by Marlene Tromp, Maria Bachman, and Heidi Kaufman
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780814211953; 9780814292969
Subjects: Xenophobia; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Outsiders in literature; Prejudices in literature; English literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming to terms with xenophobia : fear and loathing in nineteenth-century England / Marlene Tromp, Maria Bachman, and Heidi Kaufman; title: The pollution of the East : economic contamination and xenophobia in Little Dorrit and The mystery of Edwin Drood / Marlene Tromp; title: Victorian quarantines : holding the borders against "fevered" Italian masculinity in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "St. Agnes of intercession" / Jay D. Sloan; title: Contracting xenophobia : etiology, inoculation, and the limits of British imperialism / Rajani Sudan; title: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and the perils of imagined others / Maria K. Bachman; title: Maudlin profanity and midnight debauchery : infanticide and the angelito / Jennifer Hayward; title: Food, famine, and the abjection of Irish identity in Victorian representation / Charlotte Boyce; title: "Wot is to be" : the visual construction of empire at the Crystal Palace exhibition, London, 1851 / Joy Sperling; title: Terrible Turks : Victorian xenophobia and the Ottoman empire / Patrick Brantlinger; title: Ethnicity as marker in Henry Mayhew's London labour and the London poor / Thomas Prasch; title: Jewish space and the English foreigner in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda / Heidi Kaufman; title: Exile London : anarchism, immigration, and xenophobia in late-Victorian literature / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; title: Xenophobia on the streets of London : Punch's campaign against Italian organ-grinders, 1854-1864 / Annmarie McCallister; title: "You know not of what you speak" : language, identity, and xenophobia in Richard Marsh's The beetle : a mystery (1897) / Minna Vuohelainen; title: Dracula's blood of many brave races / Thomas McLean; title: Fear and loathing : Victorian xenophobia / Anne J. Kershen