Amnesiac Selves
Subtitle: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 17, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780195173093
First sentence: Replacing Barthes's hypostatized "Novel" with a historically defined set of "novels," we might say that transforming memories into useful acts - enabling, in fact, the death of memory within it - is preeminently the work of the Victorian novel.