Research Catalog

Title

Fear, loathing, and Victorian xenophobia / edited by Marlene Tromp, Maria K. Bachman, Heidi Kaufman.

Publication

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
• Bachman, Maria K., 1963-
• Kaufman, Heidi, 1969-

Description

ix, 380 p. : ill.; 24 cm

Subjects

• Xenophobia > Great Britain > 19th century
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Outsiders in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Prejudices in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Call Number

JFE 14-991

ISBN

• 9780814211953 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 081421195X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780814292969 (cd)
• 0814292968 (cd)

LCCN

• 2012017517
• 40022992318

OCLC

788270070

Title

Fear, loathing, and Victorian xenophobia / edited by Marlene Tromp, Maria K. Bachman, Heidi Kaufman.

Imprint

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Tromp, Marlene, 1966-

Bachman, Maria K., 1963-

Kaufman, Heidi, 1969-

Other Standard Identifier

40022992318

Research Call Number

JFE 14-991