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Neo-Victorianism’s inhospitable hospitality: a case study of Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White
European Journal of English Studies, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 208 - 228
Swansea University Author:
Marie-luise Kohlke
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/13825577.2020.1876608
Abstract
This article explores neo-Victorianism as an enactment of a curiously inhospitable form of hospitality afforded its consumers/audiences. Implicit gender biases underpinning Emmanuel Levinas' and Jacques Derrida's conceptualizations of hospitality are analysed via a case study of Michel Fab...
| Published in: | European Journal of English Studies |
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| ISSN: | 1382-5577 1744-4233 |
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Informa UK Limited
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54495 |
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| Abstract: |
This article explores neo-Victorianism as an enactment of a curiously inhospitable form of hospitality afforded its consumers/audiences. Implicit gender biases underpinning Emmanuel Levinas' and Jacques Derrida's conceptualizations of hospitality are analysed via a case study of Michel Faber's novel The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), as well as a several other neo-Victorian texts. |
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| Keywords: |
The Crimson Petal and the White, Jacques Derrida, Michel Faber, inhospitable hospitality, Emmanuel Levinas, Otherness |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Issue: |
3 |
| Start Page: |
208 |
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228 |