Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose /

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Main Author: Callanan, Laura
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism
  • Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841)
  • Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850)
  • The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857)
  • So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion
  • Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868)
  • De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).