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oapen-20.500.12657-346012023-03-17T13:29:23Z History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction Mitchell, Kate victoriant victoriaans historical fiction sarah waters a.s. byatt historische fictie Lesbian Neo-Victorian Photography Postmodernism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, it explores their use of the Victorians' own vocabularies of history, memory and loss to re-member the nineteenth century today. While her focus is neo-Victorian fiction, Mitchell positions these novels in relation to debates about historical fiction's contribution to historical knowledge since the eighteenth century. Her use of memory discourse as a framework for understanding the ways in which they do lay claim to historical recollection, one which opens up a range of questions beyond historical fidelity on the one hand, and the problematics of representation on the other, suggests new ways of thinking about contemporary historical fiction and its prevalence, popular appeal, and nmnenonic function today. 2011-12-31 23:55:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T15:21:05Z 2020-04-01T15:21:05Z 2010 book 392750 OCN: 794697898 9780230283121 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34601 eng application/pdf n/a 392750.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1057/9780230283121 10.1057/9780230283121 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 780772a6-efb4-48c3-b268-5edaad8380c4 9780230283121 OAPEN-UK Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke OAPEN-UK open access
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History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, it explores their use of the Victorians' own vocabularies of history, memory and loss to re-member the nineteenth century today. While her focus is neo-Victorian fiction, Mitchell positions these novels in relation to debates about historical fiction's contribution to historical knowledge since the eighteenth century. Her use of memory discourse as a framework for understanding the ways in which they do lay claim to historical recollection, one which opens up a range of questions beyond historical fidelity on the one hand, and the problematics of representation on the other, suggests new ways of thinking about contemporary historical fiction and its prevalence, popular appeal, and nmnenonic function today.
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