History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Victorian Afterimages

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Kate Mitchell

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Front Matter
Pages i-ix

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Introduction: ‘I told you we’d been invaded by Victoriana’

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Pages 1-11 Open Access

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Memory Texts: History, Fiction and the Historical Imaginary

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Pages 12-38 Open Access

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Contemporary Victorian(ism)s

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Pages 39-62 Open Access

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A Fertile Excess: Waterland, Desire and the Historical Sublime

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Pages 63-92 Open Access

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(Dis)Possessing Knowledge: A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance

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Pages 93-116 Open Access

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‘Making it seem like it’s authentic’: the Faux-Victorian Novel as Cultural Memory in Affinity and Fingersmith

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Pages 117-142 Open Access

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‘The alluring patina of loss’: Photography, Memory, and Memory Texts in Sixty Lights and Afterimage

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Pages 143-176 Open Access

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Conclusion: ‘What will count as history?’

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Pages 177-183 Open Access

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Back Matter
Pages 184-222

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About this book

Introduction

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary.

Keywords

fiction novel Victorian era

Authors and affiliations

Kate Mitchell
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1.Australian National UniversityAustralia

Bibliographic information

DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230283121
Copyright Information The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2010
Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
eBook Packages Palgrave Literature Collection
Print ISBN 978-1-349-31016-6
Online ISBN 978-0-230-28312-1
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