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

ISBN-13: 9780230228580 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 222 str.

Kate Mitchell

Opis

Examining recent rewritings of the Victorian period by authors such as A. S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Gail Jones and Graham Swift, Victorian Afterimages explores the way in which neo-Victorian fictions enact and celebrate the power of cultural memory in an age historically obsessed and yet charged with the inability to think historically.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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