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Excavating The Remains Of Empire: War And Postimperial Trauma In The Twentieth-Century Novel, Elizabeth J. Andersen
Excavating The Remains Of Empire: War And Postimperial Trauma In The Twentieth-Century Novel, Elizabeth J. Andersen
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In "Excavating the Remains of Empire: War and Postimperial Trauma in the Twentieth-Century Novel," I investigate the implications of the residual presence of empire in the contemporary novel set in England, by questioning that if it is generally accepted that in the age of imperialism novels co-produced empire, what do they now, in this historical moment of the late twentieth-century, produce in its stead? Do shame and nostalgia for empire and the trauma of empire's dissolution coexist in the postimperial, postwar novel? I use war as the key point of entry into the empire and novel connection, and claim that …
Gothic Economies: Global Capitalism And The Boundaries Of Identity, Robert Adrian Herschbach
Gothic Economies: Global Capitalism And The Boundaries Of Identity, Robert Adrian Herschbach
Doctoral Dissertations
Since Dickens and Mary Shelley, the Gothic has provided a rubric for literary conceptualizations of modernity. Dickens' depictions of industrial London characterize it as a labyrinth of temptations and horrors, haunted by monstrosity and by personal and social demons; the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the disfigured byproduct of science and technology. Bram Stoker's Dracula, perhaps the most effective "global" narrative to come out of the British fin de siecle, grafted elements of a pre-Enlightenment atavism onto the turn-of-the-century liberal metropolis. In our own era, the literature of the postmodern technopolis---the fiction of William Gibson, for example---has continued to …