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Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle : popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914 / / Nicholas Daly [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Daly Nicholas Visualizza persona
Titolo: Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle : popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914 / / Nicholas Daly [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 823/.809112
Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Popular literature - Great Britain - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature and anthropology - Great Britain - History
Adventure stories, English - History and criticism
Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain
Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain
Culture in literature
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Incorporated bodies: Dracula and professionalism -- The imperial treasure hunt: The snake's pass and the limits of romance -- 'Mummie is become merchandise': the mummy story as commodity theory -- Across the great divide: modernism, popular fiction and the primitive -- Afterword: the long goodbye.
Sommario/riassunto: In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on work in cultural studies, this book argues that the vampires, mummies and treasure hunts of these adventure narratives provided a form of narrative theory of cultural change, at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the 'new imperialism', the rise of professionalism, and the expansion of consumerist culture. Daly's wide-ranging study argues that the presence of a genre such as romance within modernism should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture.
Altri titoli varianti: Modernism, Romance & the Fin de Siècle
Titolo autorizzato: Modernism, romance, and the fin de siècle  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-11614-7
1-280-15361-X
0-511-11726-4
0-511-15097-0
0-511-32478-2
0-511-48507-7
0-511-05149-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780075603321
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