Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume I

ISBN-13: 9781516521142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 516 str.

Matthew Kaiser

Opis

Charts the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological anxieties that shaped nineteenth-century British literature and popular culture. This book maps 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.