Gothic Invasions: Imperialism, War and Fin-De-Siècle Popular Fiction

by Ailise Bulfin

What do tales of stalking vampires, restless Egyptian mummies, foreign master criminals, barbarian Eastern hordes and stomping Prussian soldiers have in common? As Gothic Invasions explains, they may all be seen as instances of invasion fiction, a paranoid fin-de-si cle popular literary phenomenon that responded to prevalent societal fears of the invasion of Britain by an array of hostile foreign forces in the period before the First World...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786832097
• ISBN13: 9781786832092
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.6"