History and cultural memory in neo-Victorian fiction Victorian afterimages
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Po...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan
2010.
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| Colección: | Springer eBooks OPEN ACCESS.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38066130*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?
