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The exotic woman in nineteenth-century British fiction and culture : a reconsideration / Piya Pal-Lapinski.
Van Pelt Library PR868.W6 P355 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pal-Lapinski, Piya.
- Series:
- Becoming modern
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Human body in literature.
- Exoticism in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Lebanon [N.H.] : University Press of New England, [2005]
- Summary:
- A fresh and provocative approach to representations of exotic women in Victorian Britain.
- Contents:
- Designing/desiring the exoticized woman
- Chemical seductions : hybridity and toxicology
- Infection as resistance : exoticized memsahibs and native courtesans in colonial India
- Tropical ovaries : gynecological degeneration and Lady Arabella's "female difficulties" in Bram Stoker's The lair of the white worm
- "Exotic and rare beauty" : archaeology, ornamentation, and vampiric bodies
- Gothic divas : opera and exoticism in Bulwer-Lytton and Vernon Lee
- Coda : that obscure object of desire.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-151) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1584654287
- 1584654295
- OCLC:
- 56368603
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