Amnesiac selves : nostalgia, forgetting, and British fiction, 1810-1870 / Nicholas Dames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dames, Nicholas, 1970- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Amnesia in literature.

Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.

Psychological fiction, English.

Autobiographical memory in literature.

Nostalgia in literature.

Memory in literature.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With Joyce, Proust and Faulkner in mind, the novel is often seen as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This text shows that the novel bears no such secure relation to memory, but tries to hide and eliminate remembering.

Contents:

Contents; INTRODUCTION: Reading Nostalgia; CHAPTER 1 Austen's Nostalgics; CHAPTER 2 Amnesiac Bodies: Phrenology, Physiognomy, and Memory in Charlotte Brontë; CHAPTER 3 Associated Fictions: Dickens, Thackeray, and Mid-Century Fictional Autobiography; CHAPTER 4 The Birth of Amnesia: Collins, Sensation, Forgetting; CHAPTER 5 The Unremembered Past: Eliot's Romola and Amnesiac Histories; CONCLUSION: Nostalgic Reading; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9780190286699

0190286695

9780197723111

019772311X

9780195186079

0195186079

9781280531439

1280531436

9780195349450

0195349458

9781602564466

1602564469

OCLC:

559853041