Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel

ISBN-13: 9780415955607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 231 str.

Adrian S. Wisnicki

Opis

Drawing on critical work by D.A. Miller, Joseph Allen Boone, Michel Foucault, and others, as well as on cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and explores what he calls the Victorian conspiracy narrative tradition-a tradition which embraces classic Victorian works like Bleak House

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Subject Who Tries to Know  2. Providence and the Hidden Hand  3. Conspiracy to Defraud and the Paranoid Subject  4. The Inaccessible Authorities and the Vanishing Subject  5. From Conspiracy to Conspiracy Theory  Afterword: In Search of Lost Time and its Inversion Theory

O autorze

Adrian Wisnicki's scholarly interests include Romantic poetry, Victorian fiction, contemporary African literature and culture, and postcolonial theory. He has published and presented on Pynchon, Proust, Joyce, R. Browning, D. Livingstone, and John Buchan. He is currently writing a book on Victorian colonial narratives set in Africa.