Art, Race, and Fantastic Color Change in the Victorian Novel

ISBN-13: 9780367663742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 148 str.

Jessica Durgan

Opis

As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors dream up fantastically colored characters, drawing on color’s traditional association with constructions of otherness to consider questions of identity and difference.

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Jessica Durgan is Associate Professor of English at Bemidji State University, where she teaches courses in British literature and film studies. Her work has previously appeared in journals such as Victorian Literature and Culture and Persuasions Online, as well as in the book collections Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture and The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescence Literature and Culture.