Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction [electronic resource] : Diaries and Letters /
Brindle, K.author.
Neo-Victorian writers invoke conflicting viewpoints in diaries, letters, etc. to creatively retrace the past in fragmentary and contradictory ways. This book explores the complex desires involved in epistolary discoveries of 'hidden' Victorians, offering new insight into the creative synthesising of critical thought within the neo-Victorian novel.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: ' Re-write, sign, seal and send'; 1 Diary and Letter Strategies Past and Present; 2 Riddles and Relics: Critical Correspondence in A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance and The Biographer's Tale; 3 Spectral Diarists: Sarah Waters's Affinity and Melissa Pritchard's Selene of the Spirits; 4 A Deviant Device: Diary Dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; 5 Lewis Carroll and the Curious Theatre of Modernity: Epistolary Pursuit in Katie Roiphe's Still She Haunts Me
6 Dissident Diarists: Mick Jackson's The Underground Man and Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the WhitePostscript: Treasures and Pleasures; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neo-Victorian writers invoke conflicting viewpoints in diaries, letters, etc. to creatively retrace the past in fragmentary and contradictory ways. This book explores the complex desires involved in epistolary discoveries of 'hidden' Victorians, offering new insight into the creative synthesising of critical thought within the neo-Victorian novel.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.