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
Nyckelord: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, European Literature, Literary History
- Utgivare
- Rousselot, Elodie
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2014
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 208 sidor
- Kategori
- Litteraturforskning
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137375209
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-47724-1