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Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction / edited by E. Rousselot.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- European literature.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- European Literature.
- Literary History.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- European Literature.
- Literary History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Exoticising the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction; Part I: Exoticising the Historical Other; 1 Exoticising the Tudors: Hilary Mantel's Re-Appropriation of the Past in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies; 2 Exoticising Colonial History: British Authors' Australian Convict Novels; 3 Exoticism and Consumption in Anne Enright's The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch; 4 'We were again on the trail of cannibals': Consuming Trauma and Frustrating Exoticism in Robert Edric's The Book of the Heathen
- 5 'It's like gold leaf, and now it's rising, peeling away': Britishness and Exoticism in Sarah Waters's The Night WatchPart II: Exotic Fascination / Neo-Historical Subversion; 6 Cannibalising the Other: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and the Incorporation of 'Exotic' Pasts; 7 Neo-Victorian Experiments with (Natural) History in Harry Karlinsky's The Evolution of Inanimate Objects; 8 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement
- 9 Beasts of Burdened Memories: Exotic Figures in Michael Chabon's Neo-Historical Holocaust Fiction10 'A History of Darkness': Exoticising Strategies and the Nigerian Civil War in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781349477241
- 1349477249
- 9781137375209
- 1137375205
- OCLC:
- 894973183
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