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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Imperial Middlebrow |
| Editors | Christoph Ehland, Jana Gohrisch |
| Place of Publication | Leiden |
| Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
| Pages | 103-123 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-90-04-42656-6 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-90-04-42655-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 28 May 2020 |
Publication series
| Name | Literary Modernism |
|---|---|
| Volume | 7 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2405-9315 |
Abstract
Combining a gendered postcolonial with a generic approach, this essay demonstrates how the British Empire is being domesticated and normalised in middlebrow fiction about the British West Indies from the end of the nineteenth century until the late 1930s. In their novels, Augusta Zelia Fraser and Margaret Long merge the conventions of domestic realism and the Bildungsroman as well historical romance, Gothic and crime to translate imperial concerns about gender, social class and race into the language of their white and female middle-class readers in the metropolis.
Keywords
- Augusta Zelia Fraser, British West Indies, brown femininities, domestic fiction, historical romance, Margaret Long, white
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Literature and Literary Theory
Sustainable Development Goals
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Imperial Middlebrow. ed. / Christoph Ehland; Jana Gohrisch. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2020. p. 103-123 (Literary Modernism; Vol. 7).
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