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Representation of the Body in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race

dc.contributor.authorJaroenvong, Kornnop
dc.coverage.temporal1871-1871
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-14T17:14:37Z
dc.date.available2023-12-14T17:14:37Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.issuedBE2564
dc.description.abstractMany critics have suggested that most of the monstrous characters in late-Victorian British science-fiction novels represent social misfits and the cultural fear of physical and moral degeneration. However, scholars of critical posthumanism believed that the body born in a techno-scientific context can depict a progressive hybrid that destabilises the natural-unnatural dualism from an anthropocentric view. In line with this posthuman perspective, this article studies Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871) in which the non-human characters, the Vril-ya, can be considered advanced beings instead of malformed monsters. It argues that such characters represent progression rather than degeneration since the portrayal of their electric body, a body integrated with electrical technology, affirms the necessity for a bio-technological reform of civilisation. Through the electric body, Bulwer-Lytton seems to suggest the possibility of a new form of life that co-evolves with technology.
dc.identifier.issn2586-906X (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://harrt.in.th/handle/123456789/1703
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectBody
dc.subjectVictorian Science Fiction
dc.subjectPosthumanism
dc.subjectEdward Bulwer-Lytton
dc.subjectThe Coming Race
dc.subject.isced0232 วรรณคดีและภาษาศาสตร์
dc.subject.oecd6.2 ภาษาและวรรณคดี
dc.titleRepresentation of the Body in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race
dc.typeบทความวารสาร (Journal Article)
dspace.entity.typePublication
harrt.itemID63
harrt.researchAreaวรรณกรรมอังกฤษ
harrt.researchGroupภาษาอังกฤษ
harrt.researchTheme.1วิเคราะห์วรรณกรรม/วรรณคดี
harrt.researchTheme.2นวนิยาย
mods.location.urlhttps://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/thoughts/article/view/246205
oaire.citation.endPage37
oaire.citation.startPage16
oaire.citation.titleThoughts 
oaire.citation.volume1
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