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Amnesiac selves : nostalgia, forgetting, and British fiction, 1810-1870 /
With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative nove...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, Amnesiac Selves shows that the Victorian novel bears no such secure relation to memory, and, in fact, it tries to hide, evade, and eliminate remembering. Dames argues that the notable scarcity and distinct unease of representations of remembrance in the nineteenth-century British novel signal an. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195349450 0195349458 1602564469 9781602564466 9780195143577 0195143574 1280531436 9781280531439 0195186079 9780195186079 9786610531431 6610531439 |