TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Kate
AU  - Parsons,Nicola
TI  - Reading historical fiction: the revenant and remembered past 
SN  - 9780230343139 (hardback)
AV  - PR830.H5 R43 2013
U1  - 823/.081099282 23
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Historical fiction, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and history
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History in literature
KW  - Recollection (Psychology) in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Periodization
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-239) and index; Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Reading the Represented Past: History and Fiction from 1700 to the Present; K.Mitchell & N.Parsons -- Learning to Read the Past in the Early Historical Novel; A.Stevens -- Temporal Systems in Representations of the Past: Distance, Freedom and Irony in Historical Fiction; H.Dalley -- 'All histories are against you?': Family History, Domestic History and the Feminine Past in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; M.Spongberg -- Rereading Hogarth and Pope: Authenticity and Academic Fictions of the Eighteenth Century; J.Ward -- 'Panoramic Byron: Reading, History and Pre-cinematic Spectacle; H.Groth -- 'The Painted Record' in George Eliot's Historical Novel Romola; K.Marler-Kennedy -- Reading and Remembering History in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year; N.Parsons -- The Gothic Reader: History, Fear and Trembling; D.Wallace -- Notes towards a Poethics of Spectrality: The Examples of Neo-Victorian Textuality; J.Wolfreys -- Dickens and Ways of Seeing the French Revolution: A Tale of Two Cities; J.Mee -- The Uses of History: The Historical Novel in the Post-French Revolution Debate and Ellis Cornelia Knight's Marcus Flaminius (1792); F.Price -- The Living Past and the Fellowship of Sacrificial Violence in William Morris's A Dream of John Ball; I.Hanson -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "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"--
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