History and cultural memory in neo-Victorian fiction : Victorian afterimages /
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Author / Creator: | Mitchell, Kate, 1976- |
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Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12326441 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "I told you we'd been invaded by Victoriana"
- Memory texts: history, fiction and the historical imaginary
- Contemporary Victorian(ism)s
- A fertile excess: waterland, desire and the historical sublime
- (Dis)possessing knowledge: A.S. Byatt's Possession: a romance
- "Making it seem like it's authentic": the faux-Victorian novel as cultural memory in Affinity and fingersmith
- 'The alluring patina of loss': photography, memory, and memory texts in Sixty lights and Afterimage
- Conclusion: what will count as history?