Reading historical fiction : the revenant and remembered past / edited by Kate Mitchell, Australian National University, and Nicola Parsons, University of Sydney
- Published
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Physical Description
- xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Mitchell, Kate, 1976- and Parsons, Nicola, 1976-
Related Resources
- Cover image: www.netread.com
- Contents
- 1. Reading the Represented Past: History and Fiction from 1700 to the Present / Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons -- 2. Learning to Read the Past in the Early Historical Novel / Anne H. Stevens -- 3. Temporal Systems in Representations of the Past: Distance, Freedom and Irony in Historical Fiction / Hamish Dalley -- 4. 'All histories are against you?': Family History, Domestic History and the Feminine Past in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion / Mary Spongberg -- 5. Rereading Hogarth and Pope: Authenticity and Academic Fictions of the Eighteenth Century / James Ward -- 6. Panoramic Byron: Reading, History and Pre-cinematic Spectacle / Helen Groth -- 7. 'The Painted Record' in George Eliot's Historical Novel Romola / Kara Marler-Kennedy -- 8. Reading and Remembering History in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year / Nicola Parsons -- 9. The Gothic Reader: History, Fear and Trembling / Diana Wallace -- 10. Notes towards a Poethics of Spectrality: The Examples of Neo-Victorian Textuality / Julian Wolfreys -- 11. Dickens and Ways of Seeing the French Revolution: A Tale of Two Cities / Jon Mee -- 12. The Uses of History: The Historical Novel in the Post-French Revolution Debate and Ellis Cornelia Knight's Marcus Flaminius (1792) / Fiona Price -- 13. The Living Past and the Fellowship of Sacrificial Violence in William Morris's A Dream of John Ball / Ingrid Hanson.
- 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"--
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780230343139 (hardback)
0230343139 (hardback) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-239) and index.
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