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M. P. Shiel, the Decadent Vortex, and Racial Anxiety
- Author(s):
- Neil Hultgren (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Subject(s):
- British literature, Race, Ethnicity, Science fiction, English literature, Nineteenth century
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Apocalypticism, Race/ethnicity, Victorian literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/02yq-w991
- Abstract:
- I examine the proliferation of the concept of the vortex in the decadent fiction of M. P. Shiel in relation to fiction's ability and inability to represent human consciousness and its limits. I think through the way that Shiel's fascination with Edgar Allan Poe influenced his literary vortexes, the significance of Shiel's fiction in relation to vortical developments in physics in the late nineteenth century, and the impact of the vortex on Shiel's engagement with whiteness and racial difference.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Online publication Show details
- Pub. URL:
- https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/volupte/article/view/1506
- Pub. Date:
- 21 June 2021
- Website:
- https://volupte.gold.ac.uk
- Version:
- Published version from 21 June 2021
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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