Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction
Editors: Rousselot, E. (Ed.)
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- About this book
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This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history.
- About the authors
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Rosario Arias, University of Málaga, Spain Gerd Bayer, Erlangen University, Germany Nick Bentley, University of Keele, UK Elsa Cavalié, University of Toulouse, France Therese-M. Meyer, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Amy S. Rushton, University of Manchester, UK Emily Scott, University of Portsmouth, UK Mia Spiro, University of Glasgow, UK Maeve Tynan, Independent Scholar, Ireland
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: Exoticising the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction
Pages 1-16
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Exoticising the Tudors: Hilary Mantel’s Re-Appropriation of the Past in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
Pages 19-36
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Exoticising Colonial History: British Authors’ Australian Convict Novels
Pages 37-54
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Exoticism and Consumption in Anne Enright’s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
Pages 55-68
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‘We were again on the trail of cannibals’: Consuming Trauma and Frustrating Exoticism in Robert Edric’s The Book of the Heathen
Pages 69-83
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction
- Editors
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- E. Rousselot
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-37520-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137375209
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-37519-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-47724-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 197
- Topics
