Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403946508)

Victorian domestic novels routinely detect a savage otherness lurking within the English state and subject. Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel charts the development of this irony within evangelical and anthropological discourses and studies its emergence in the major works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and George Meredith. Each of these writers disrupts the certitudes of imperial ideology by appropriating the language of ethnography and using it to describe the social domestic field. Providing fresh readings of both canonical and neglected novels, this original volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Nineteenth-Century literature and Postcolonial studies.

Author: T. Carens
ISBN-10: 1403946507
ISBN-13: 9781403946508
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2005
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.82w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2006 pg. 108