The Exotic Landscape in the Victorian Adventure Fiction and the Construction of Englishness

Abstract

Abstract: As an ideological construct, landscape representation involves various elements, such as gender, class, nation and race. The depiction of the exotic landscape in the Victorian adventure fiction embodies the construction of Englishness. The North American wilderness in Settlers in Canada reflects the English industry and self-discipline, the island landscape of the South Seas in The Coral Island represents the English civility, reason and spirit in civilizing exotic regions, and the feminized landscape in King Solomon's Mines eulogizes the English manliness. As the specific products of different social and cultural contexts, these novels construct different versions of Englishness during different times.

Key words: Victorian Age, adventure fiction, landscape, Englishness

Chen Bing. The Exotic Landscape in the Victorian Adventure Fiction and the Construction of Englishness[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2019, 41(4): 89-100.

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