An edition of Reading historical fiction
(2013)
Reading historical fiction
the revenant and remembered past
by Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons
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"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.
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Periodization, Recollection (Psychology) in literature, History in literature, Literature and history, English fiction, History and criticism, English Historical fiction, Historical fiction, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPlaces
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Reading historical fiction: the revenant and remembered past
2013, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
0230343139 9780230343139
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Table of Contents
Introduction.
'Reading the represented past : history and fiction from 1700 to the present -- K.Mitchell & N.Parsons
Learning to read the past in the early historical novel -- A.Stevens
Temporal systems in representations of the past : contingency, free will and irony in historical fiction -- H.Dalley
'All histories are against you?' : family history, domestic history and the feminine past in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion -- M.Spongberg
Rereading Hogarth and Pope : authenticity and academic fictions of the eighteenth century -- J.Ward
'Panoramic Byron : reading, history and pre-cinematic spectacle -- H.Groth
'The painted record' in George Eliot's historical novel Romola -- K.Marler-Kennedy
Reading and remembering history in Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year -- N.Parsons
The Gothic reader : history, fear and trembling -- D.Wallace
Notes towards a poethics of spectrality : the examples of neo-Victorian textuality -- J.Wolfreys
Dickens and ways of seeing the French revolution : A tale of two cities -- J.Mee
The uses of history : the historical novel in the post-French revolution debate and Ellis Cornelia Knight's Marcus Flaminius (1792) -- F.Price
The living past and the fellowship of sacrificial violence in William Morris's A dream of John Ball -- I.Hanson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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