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dc.contributor.authorGagnier, Regeniaen_GB
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-19T16:08:19Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-25T10:12:26Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T13:57:31Z
dc.date.issued2004-09-01en_GB
dc.description.abstractWHEN ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON AND I began collecting the essays included here, we were interested to see how recent theorists of boundaries like Audre Lorde (hyphenated identities), Gloria Anzaldua (borderlands), Donna Haraway (cyborg), J-F Lyotard (the in-between), or Jacques Derrida (deconstruction) fared in relation to classic theorists of boundaries like Aristotle, Hegel, Marx, and Darwin. We found that while the field of Victorian Studies has absorbed the theory, current practitioners may refer little to past or present theoretical masters. Rather they describe which boundaries were salient to the Victorians and why; when they were permeable and how; and who enforced them and to what ends. The essays in this volume focus on specific boundaries and amass a wealth of detailed knowledge about them. They include the boundaries or boundlessness of London and her suburbs (Parrinder, Cunningham); transnational or deterritorialized boundaries of empire (Spear and Meduri); psychological boundaries (Rylance, Trotter); boundaries between body and soul (Moran) and living and dead (Robson); generic boundaries (Barzilai, Howsam, Small, Toker); boundaries of popular representation between art and politics (Ledger, Livesey); and boundaries between humans, animals, and machines (Joseph and Sussman). The essays here interrogate boundaries historically and pragmatically, with a high tolerance of the in-between or queer, to which I shall return below.en_GB
dc.identifier.citation32 (2): pp 397-406en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1017.S1060150304000555en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/26892en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=241154en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://0-ejournals.ebsco.com.lib.exeter.ac.uk/direct.asp?ArticleID=4CE1A811C554FBB92244en_GB
dc.subjectBoundaries - Social Sciencesen_GB
dc.subjectBoundaries - Philosophyen_GB
dc.subjectGreat Britain - History - 1837-1901en_GB
dc.subjectVictorianen_GB
dc.titleIntroduction: boundaries in theory and historyen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2008-05-19T16:08:19Zen_GB
dc.date.available2011-01-25T10:12:26Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T13:57:31Z
dc.identifier.issn10601503en_GB
dc.identifier.issn14701553en_GB
dc.descriptionIntroduction to special issue on Victorian boundaries. Reproduced with permission of the publisher. © 2004 Cambridge University Press.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalVictorian Literature and Cultureen_GB


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