Reading historical fiction
Subtitle: the revenant and remembered past
By: edited by Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780230343139
Subjects: Periodization; Recollection (Psychology) in literature; History in literature; Literature and history; English fiction; History and criticism; English Historical fiction
Description: "This collection of essays that examines historical fiction from the eighteenth century to the present. In doing so, it provides a clear sense of both the shifts and continuities in the way historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading practices intersect"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: 'Reading the represented past : history and fiction from 1700 to the present  -- K.Mitchell & N.Parsons; title: Learning to read the past in the early historical novel  -- A.Stevens; title: Temporal systems in representations of the past : contingency, free will and irony in historical fiction  -- H.Dalley; title: 'All histories are against you?' : family history, domestic history and the feminine past in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion  -- M.Spongberg; title: Rereading Hogarth and Pope : authenticity and academic fictions of the eighteenth century  -- J.Ward; title: 'Panoramic Byron : reading, history and pre-cinematic spectacle  -- H.Groth; title: 'The painted record' in George Eliot's historical novel Romola  -- K.Marler-Kennedy; title: Reading and remembering history in Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year  -- N.Parsons; title: The Gothic reader : history, fear and trembling  -- D.Wallace; title: Notes towards a poethics of spectrality : the examples of neo-Victorian textuality  -- J.Wolfreys; title: Dickens and ways of seeing the French revolution : A tale of two cities  -- J.Mee; title: The uses of history : the historical novel in the post-French revolution debate and Ellis Cornelia Knight's Marcus Flaminius (1792)  -- F.Price; title: The living past and the fellowship of sacrificial violence in William Morris's A dream of John Ball -- I.Hanson.