Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume I |
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| Editor:
| Kaiser, Matthew |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5165-2114-2 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2017 |
| Publisher: | Cognella, Inc.
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| Imprint: | Cognella Academic Publishing |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $98.95 |
Book Description:
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Charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. This book maps the nineteenth-century British preoccupation with phenomena that rattled Western middle-class subjectivity: criminality, monstrosity, sexual transgression, alien cultures, and the breakdown of social norms.
Charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. This book maps the nineteenth-century British preoccupation with phenomena that rattled Western middle-class subjectivity: criminality, monstrosity, sexual transgression, alien cultures, and the breakdown of social norms.