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.

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fiction
novel
Victorian era
British and Irish Literature

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Australian National University, Australia

Kate Mitchell

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KATE MITCHELL is a Lecturer in English Literature at the Australian National University, Australia.

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Book Title: History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Book Subtitle: Victorian Afterimages
Authors: Kate Mitchell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230283121
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22858-0Published: 16 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31016-6Published: 16 July 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28312-1Published: 16 July 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 222
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, European Literature

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