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History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Victorian Afterimages

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Authors:
  1. Kate Mitchell

    1. Australian National University, Australia

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: ‘I told you we’d been invaded by Victoriana’

    • Kate Mitchell
    Pages 1-11Open Access
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  3. Memory Texts: History, Fiction and the Historical Imaginary

    • Kate Mitchell
    Pages 12-38Open Access
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  4. Contemporary Victorian(ism)s

    • Kate Mitchell
    Pages 39-62Open Access
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  5. A Fertile Excess: Waterland, Desire and the Historical Sublime

    • Kate Mitchell
    Pages 63-92Open Access
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  6. (Dis)Possessing Knowledge: A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance

    • Kate Mitchell
    Pages 93-116Open Access
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  7. ‘Making it seem like it’s authentic’: the Faux-Victorian Novel as Cultural Memory in Affinity and Fingersmith

    • Kate Mitchell
    Pages 117-142Open Access
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  8. ‘The alluring patina of loss’: Photography, Memory, and Memory Texts in Sixty Lights and Afterimage

    • Kate Mitchell
    Pages 143-176Open Access
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  9. Conclusion: ‘What will count as history?’

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    Pages 177-183Open Access
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  10. Back Matter

    Pages 184-222
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • 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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