Jean Fernandez

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire

The Poetics of Imperial Space

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Produktbeschreibung

In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction's emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781032175577
• ISBN-10: 1032175575
• Artikelnr.: 62570306

Autorenporträt

Jean Fernandez is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She received her Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Victorian Literature, from the University of Iowa, where she was a Seashore Dissertation Fellow. She is the author of Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy (Routledge, 2009). Her essays on Victorian fiction, Gender Studies, and Empire Studies have appeared in leading scholarly journals of nineteenth-century British literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
Desert Islands and the Conundrum of Place in R.L.Stevenson's Treasure
Island.
Topophilia and the Settler Experience in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an
African Farm.
Exploring the Glocal: The Dark Continent and Global Economies in Winwood
Reade's "Hollowayphobia" and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Mobile Peoples, Mutinous Subjects, and Urban Geographies in Flora Annie
Steel's On the Face of the Waters.
The Politics of Region and the Quandaries of Space in Joseph Conrad's Lord
Jim.
The Imperial Cure: Eventful Healing, Medical Topographies, and Casteless
Utopias in Rudyard Kipling's Kim.
Conclusion.