History and cultural memory in neo-Victorian fiction
Subtitle: Victorian afterimages
By: Kate Mitchell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780230228580
Subjects: Historiography; Nineteenth century; In literature; History and criticism; English Historical fiction; Collective memory in literature; English fiction; Victoriana; History in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: 'I told you we'd been invaded by Victoriana'; title: 2. Contemporary Victorian(ism)s; title: 3. A fertile excess: waterland, desire and the historical sublime; title: 4. (Dis)possessing knowledge: A.S. Byatt's possession: a romance; title: 5. 'Making it seem like it's authentic': the Faux-Victorian novel as cultural memory in Affinity and Fingersmith; title: 6. 'The alluring patina of loss': photography, memory, and memory texts in Sixty Lights and Afterimage.