Kate Mitchell

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Victorian Afterimages

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Produktbeschreibung

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-22858-0
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 19mm x 145mm x 224mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780230228580
• ISBN-10: 0230228585
• Artikelnr.: 29738253

Autorenporträt

KATE MITCHELL is a Lecturer in English Literature at the Australian National University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: 'I told You we'd been invaded by Victoriana' Memory Texts: History, Fiction and the Historical Imaginary Contemporary Victorian(ism)s A Fertile Excess: Waterland, Desire and the Historical Sublime (Dis)Possessing Knowledge: A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance 'Making it seem like it's authentic': the faux-Victorian Novel as Cultural Memory in Affinity and Fingersmith 'The alluring patina of loss': Photography, Memory, and Memory Texts in Sixty Lights and Afterimage Conclusion: 'What will count as history?' Endnotes Bibliography Index A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org.