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Reading historical fiction : the revenant and remembered past / edited by Kate Mitchell, Australian National University, and Nicola Parsons, University of Sydney.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Historical fiction, English.
- Literature and history--Great Britain.
- Literature and history.
- English fiction.
- Great Britain.
- History in literature.
- Recollection (Psychology) in literature.
- English fiction--Periodization.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230343139
- 0230343139
- OCLC:
- 819640568
- Online:
- Cover image
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