Ailise Bulfin, Gothic Invasions: Imperialism, War, and Fin-de-Siècle Popular Fiction (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018), pp. 288, £85 hardcover

Title
Ailise Bulfin, Gothic Invasions: Imperialism, War, and Fin-de-Siècle Popular Fiction (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018), pp. 288, £85 hardcover
Publication Date
2020
Author(s)
Scully, Richard
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4012-4991
Email: rscully@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:rscully
Type of document
Review
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1353/vpr.2020.0060
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/32408
Abstract
In her first monograph and latest contribution to the field of invasion studies, Ailise Bulfin asks: What do tales of stalking vampires, restless Egyptian mummies, foreign master criminals, barbarian Eastern hordes, and stomping Prussian soldiers have in common? The chief answer is that this rogues’ gallery of literary and pop culture monsters reflects British society’s fear of invasion and subversion by foreign powers or peoples and the degeneration that would either enable or result from such an invasion.
Link
Citation
Victorian Periodicals Review, 53(4), p. 637-639
ISSN
1712-526X
0709-4698
Start page
637
End page
639

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