Gothic Invasions : imperialism, war and fin-de-siècle popular fiction /
Gothic Invasions investigates the prevalent concern with invasion and war in fin-de-siècle British popular fiction, identifies the role of imperial expansion in generating fears of invasion, and explores how these fears were expressed transgenerically in narratives of invasion drawing strongly upon...
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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press
2018
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| Cyfres: | Gothic literary studies.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.14491623 |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Call to Arms; Part I: Gothic Fictions of Empire; Chapter 1: Gothic Invasions from the East and West Indies: Vampires, Mesmerists and Demons; Chapter 2: Gothic Invasions from Egypt: Mummies and Curses; Part II: Genre and Gothic Invasion; Chapter 3: Crime Fiction: Mephistophelean Master Criminals; Chapter 4: Yellow-Peril Fiction: Villainous Celestials; Chapter 5: Military Invasion Tales: Brutish Europeans and Gothic Battlefields; Afterword: 'To Arms!' in Earnest; Notes; Select Bibliography