Neo-Victorian writers invoke conflicting viewpoints in diaries, letters, etc. to creatively retrace the past in fragmentary and contradictory ways. This book explores the complex desires involved in epistolary discoveries of 'hidden' Victorians, offering new insight into the creative synthesising of critical thought within the neo-Victorian novel.
Neo-Victorian writers invoke conflicting viewpoints in diaries, letters, etc. to creatively retrace the past in fragmentary and contradictory ways. This book explores the complex desires involved in epistolary discoveries of 'hidden' Victorians, offering new insight into the creative synthesising of critical thought within the neo-Victorian novel.
Kym Brindle is Associate Lecturer in English Literature at Edge hill University, UK. She obtained her PhD from Lancaster University, UK for an AHRC funded study of neo-Victorian fiction and has published essays on the genre in edited collections and the Journal of Neo Victorian Studies.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Diary and Letter Strategies Past and Present 2. Riddles and Relics: Critical Correspondence in A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance and The Biographer's Tale 3. Spectral Diarists: Sarah Waters's Affinity and Melissa Pritchard's Selene of the Spirits 4. A Deviant Device: Diary Dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace 5. Lewis Carroll and the Curious Theatre of Modernity: Epistolary Pursuit in Katie Roiphe's Still She Haunts Me 6. Dissident Diarists: Mick Jackson's The Underground Man and Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White Postscript: Treasures and Pleasures
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Diary and Letter Strategies Past and Present 2. Riddles and Relics: Critical Correspondence in A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance and The Biographer's Tale 3. Spectral Diarists: Sarah Waters's Affinity and Melissa Pritchard's Selene of the Spirits 4. A Deviant Device: Diary Dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace 5. Lewis Carroll and the Curious Theatre of Modernity: Epistolary Pursuit in Katie Roiphe's Still She Haunts Me 6. Dissident Diarists: Mick Jackson's The Underground Man and Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White Postscript: Treasures and Pleasures
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