Victorian Literary Cultures - Studies in Textual SubversionPaperback
Victorian Literary Cultures - Studies in Textual SubversionPaperback Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of…
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Victorian Literary Cultures - Studies in Textual SubversionPaperback
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. For some late nineteenth-century British novelists, subversion was a central aspect of their writerly existence. By drawing clear cultural contexts for the works under review--including such canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes--the critics in this anthology offer groundbreaking studies of subversion as a literary motif.
In addition to using coded and oblique subject matter, such figures also hid their transgressive material "in plain sight." While some writers sought to Although--or perhaps because--most Victorian authors composed their works for a general and mixed audience, many writers employed strategies designed to subvert genteel expectations.
Victorian Literary Cultures
Nature and Literary Studies