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CRIME AND HORROR IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE, VOLUME IBD

MATTHEW KAISER
COGNELLA ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
12 / 2017
9781516521159
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Sinopsis

This two-volume anthology charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. In a rapidly changing world, in an era marked by unprecedented prosperity and widespread poverty, the Victorians aggressively policed&mdash,and clandestinely crossed&mdash,increasingly porous and unstable boundaries.áCrime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Cultureámaps 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. Ranging widely, both chronologically and generically, the anthology provides examples of short and long fiction, poetry, plays, government reports, journalism, social criticism, and polemic from 1829 to 1904. It includes writing on criminology, colonialism, racism, prostitution, sexual exploitation, prison, and capital punishment. Other topics include atypical bodies, mental illness, suicide, and homelessness.áVolume II is organized around four rubrics: monstrosity, hauntings, alien worlds, and death. With a wide range of primary source material and extensive annotations, this volume includes a new translation of Emile Durkheim&rsquo,sáSuicide: A Study in Sociology, Margaret Oliphant&rsquo,s novellaáA Beleaguered City, and works by Christina Rossetti, H. G. Wells, Elizabeth Gaskell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Vernon Lee, and many others.Matthew Kaiseráis an associate professor and chair of English at the University of California, Merced. He is the author ofáThe World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Conceptá(Stanford University Press, 2012), the translator of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch&rsquo,sáVenus in Fursá(Cognella, 2017) and the editor of seven books, including Alan Dale&rsquo,sáA Marriage Below Zeroá(Cognella, 2011) and the forthcomingáA Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empireá(Bloomsbury, 2019).

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86,06€