Modernism, Romance and the Fin De Siecle - Popular Fiction and British Culture

Klappentext Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the "romance revival" of the late Victorian and Edwardian years! focusing on authors such as Bram Stoker! H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Drawing on recent work in cultural studies! Daly argues that these adventure narratives provided a narrative of cultural change at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the "new imperialism." The presence of a genre such as romance within modernism! he claims! should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture. Zusammenfassung Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years. The presence of a genre such as romance within modernism! he claims! should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Incorporated bodies: Dracula and professionalism; 2. The imperial treasure hunt: The Snake's Pass and the limits of romance; 3. 'Mummie is become merchandise': the mummy story as commodity theory; 4. Across the great divide: modernism, popular fiction and the primitive; Afterword: the long goodbye; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Daly, Nicholas (Trinity College Daly, Daly Nicholas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2000
• EAN: 9780521641036
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64103-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form