Rousselot, Elodie
Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction
1. Introduction: Exoticising the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction
Elodie Rousselot
Part I. Exoticising the Historical Other
2. Exoticising the Tudors: Hilary Mantel’s Re-Appropriation of the Past in
Rosario Arias
3. Exoticising Colonial History: British Authors’ Australian Convict Novels
Therese-M. Meyer
4. Exoticism and Consumption in Anne Enright’s
Maeve Tynan
5. ‘We were again on the trail of cannibals’: Consuming Trauma and Frustrating Exoticism in Robert Edric’s
Emily Scott
6. ‘It’s like gold leaf, and now it’s rising, peeling away’: Britishness and Exoticism in Sarah Waters’s
Elsa Cavalié
Part II. Exotic Fascination / Neo-Historical Subversion
7. Cannibalising the Other: David Mitchell’s
Gerd Bayer
8. Neo-Victorian Experiments with (Natural) History in Harry Karlinsky’s
Elodie Rousselot
9. ‘Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?’: The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro’s
Nick Bentley
10. Beasts of Burdened Memories: Exotic Figures in Michael Chabon’s Neo-Historical Holocaust Fiction
Mia Spiro
11. ‘A History of Darkness’: Exoticising Strategies and the Nigerian Civil War in
Amy S. Rushton
Avainsanat: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, European Literature, Literary History
- Toimittaja
- Rousselot, Elodie
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2014
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 208 sivua
- Kategoria
- Kirjallisuudentutkimus
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137375209
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-349-47724-1