History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction - Victorian Afterimages

Informationen zum Autor KATE MITCHELL is a Lecturer in English Literature at the Australian National University! Australia.  Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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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.

Product details

• Authors: K. Mitchell, Kate Mitchell, MITCHELL KATE
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2010
• EAN: 9780230228580
• ISBN: 978-0-230-22858-0
• No. of pages: 231
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, fiction;novel;Victorian era