Sanctified Sinophobia, Christian Nationalism, and M. P. Shiel's The Yellow Danger.
This article examines the bestselling 1898 novel The Yellow Danger , a so-called Chinese invasion fantasy that inspired Sax Rohmer's infamous Fu Manchu series. Where analysis of The Yellow Danger has tended to underplay its religious dimension, I argue that its depiction of the Yellow Peril constitu...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 67 - 93 |
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