Gothic Invasions by Ailise Bulfin
What do tales of stalking vampires, restless Egyptian mummies, foreign master criminals, barbarian Eastern hordes and stomping Prussian soldiers have in common? As Gothic Invasions explains, they may all be seen as instances of invasion fiction, a paranoid fin-de-siecle popular literary phenomenon that responded to prevalent societal fears of the invasion of Britain by an array of hostile foreign forces in the period before the First World War. Gothic Invasions traces the roots of invasion anxiety to concerns about the downside of Britain's continuing imperial expansion: fears of growing inter-European rivalry and colonial wars and rebellion. It explores how these fears circulated across the British empire and were expressed in fictional narratives drawing strongly upon and reciprocally transforming the conventions and themes of gothic writing. Gothic Invasions enhances our understanding of an aspect of the interchange between popular culture and politics at this crucial historical juncture, and demonstrates the instrumentality of the ever-versatile and politically-charged gothic mode in this process.-
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This book will mainly attract an academic audience - undergraduate, postgraduate and academics; and will serve useful as teaching and research resource. It will also be of interest to the general public.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781786832092 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786832097 |
| Title | Gothic Invasions |
| Author | Ailise Bulfin |
| Series | Gothic Literary Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2018-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |