Reading Historical Fiction [electronic resource] : The Revenant and Remembered Past /
Mitchell, Kate.author.
Parsons, N.editor.
This collection examines the intersection of historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading practices in historical fiction from the eighteenth century to today. In shifting focus to the agency of the reader and taking a long historical view, the collection brings a new perspective to the field of historical representation.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: 'Reading the Represented Past: History and Fiction from 1700 to the Present; K.Mitchell & N.Parsons -- Learning to Read the Past in the Early Historical Novel; A.Stevens -- Temporal Systems in Representations of the Past: Contingency, Free Will and Irony in Historical Fiction; H.Dalley -- 'All histories are against you?': Family History, Domestic History and the Feminine Past in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; M.Spongberg -- Rereading Hogarth and Pope: Authenticity and Academic Fictions of the Eighteenth Century; J.Ward -- 'Panoramic Byron: Reading, History and Pre-cinematic Spectacle; H.Groth -- 'The Painted Record' in George Eliot's Historical Novel Romola; K.Marler-Kennedy -- Reading and Remembering History in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year; N.Parsons -- The Gothic Reader: History, Fear and Trembling; D.Wallace -- Notes towards a Poethics of Spectrality: The Examples of Neo-Victorian Textuality; J.Wolfreys -- Dickens and Ways of Seeing the French Revolution: A Tale of Two Cities; J.Mee -- The Uses of History: The Historical Novel in the Post-French Revolution Debate and Ellis Cornelia Knight's Marcus Flaminius (1792); F.Price -- The Living Past and the Fellowship of Sacrificial Violence in William Morris's A Dream of John Ball; I.Hanson -- Bibliography -- Index.
This collection examines the intersection of historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading practices in historical fiction from the eighteenth century to today. In shifting focus to the agency of the reader and taking a long historical view, the collection brings a new perspective to the field of historical representation.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.