History and cultural memory in Neo-Victorian fiction: Victorian afterimages
Mitchell, Kate
Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary. It revises historical fiction's relationship to history and moves critical debates on from a reductive focus on the problematics of representation. INDICE: - Acknowledgements - Introduction: 'I told You we'd been invaded by Victoriana' - Memory Texts: History, Fiction and the Historical Imaginary - Contemporary Victorian(ism)s - A Fertile Excess: Waterland, Desire and the Historical Sublime - (Dis)Possessing Knowledge: A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance - 'Making it seem like it's authentic': the faux-Victorian Novel as Cultural Memory in Affinity and Fingersmith - 'The alluring patina of loss': Photography, Memory, and Memory Texts in Sixty Lights and Afterimage - Conclusion: 'What will count as history?' - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22858-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha Publicación: 27/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés