Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction

1. Introduction: ‘Re-write, sign, seal and send’
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2. Diary and Letter Strategies Past and Present
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3. Riddles and Relics: Critical Correspondence in A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance and The Biographer’s Tale
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4. Spectral Diarists: Sarah Waters’s Affinity and Melissa Pritchard’s Selene of the Spirits

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5. A Deviant Device: Diary Dissembling in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace

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6. Lewis Carroll and the Curious Theatre of Modernity: Epistolary Pursuit in Katie Roiphe’s Still She Haunts Me

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7. Dissident Diarists: Mick Jackson’s The Underground Man and Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White
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8. Postscript: Treasures and Pleasures
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Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory