History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

1. Introduction: ‘I told you we’d been invaded by Victoriana’
Kate Mitchell

2. Memory Texts: History, Fiction and the Historical Imaginary
Kate Mitchell

3. Contemporary Victorian(ism)s
Kate Mitchell

4. A Fertile Excess: Waterland, Desire and the Historical Sublime
Kate Mitchell

5. (Dis)Possessing Knowledge: A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance

Kate Mitchell

6. ‘Making it seem like it’s authentic’: the Faux-Victorian Novel as Cultural Memory in Affinity and Fingersmith

Kate Mitchell

7. ‘The alluring patina of loss’: Photography, Memory, and Memory Texts in Sixty Lights and Afterimage

Kate Mitchell

8. Conclusion: ‘What will count as history?’
Kate Mitchell

Avainsanat: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, European Literature