Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking collection, scholars explore Victorian xenophobia as a rhetorical strategy that transforms "foreign" people, bodies, and objects into perceived invaders with the dangerous power to alter the social fabric of the nation and the identity of the English.Essays in the collected edition look across the cultural landscape of the

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814254284
• ISBN13: 9780814254288
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"