Reading Historical Fiction : The Revenant and Remembered Past / by Kate Mitchell ; edited by N. Parsons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Kate, 1976-

Parsons, Nicola, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

European literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Local Subjects:

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

European Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection examines the intersection of historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading practices in historical fiction from the eighteenth century to today. In shifting focus to the agency of the reader and taking a long historical view, the collection brings a new perspective to the field of historical representation.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349344536

1349344532

9781785395505

1785395505

9781137291547

1137291540

9781283946933

1283946939

OCLC:

824118010