1st Edition
Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel
By Adrian Wisnicki
Copyright 2008
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing on critical and theoretical work by Miller, Boone, Foucault, Jameson, and others, as well as cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and explores what he calls the Victorian "conspiracy narrative tradition"--a tradition which embraces classic Victorian works like Bleak House, Great Expectations, Villette, and The Moonstone, as well as... Read more
Introduction 1. The Subject Who Tries to Know 2. Providence and the Hidden Hand 3. Conspiracy to Defraud and the Paranoid Subject 4. The Inaccessible Authorities and the Vanishing Subject 5. From Conspiracy to Conspiracy Theory Afterword: In Search of Lost Time and its "Inversion Theory"
Biography
Adrian Wisnicki's scholarly interests include Romantic poetry, Victorian fiction, contemporary African literature and culture, and postcolonial theory. He has published and presented on Pynchon, Proust, Joyce, R. Browning, D. Livingstone, and John Buchan. He is currently writing a book on Victorian colonial narratives set in Africa.
