Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction /

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Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction is a lively discussion of the debates about the uses of the past contained in British fiction since the Falklands crisis. Drawing on a diverse and original body of work, Suzanne Keen provides a detailed examination of the range of contemporary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keen, Suzanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2003, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Postcolonialism.
Libraries in literature.
Historical fiction, English.
English fiction.
Archives in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Postcolonialisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Archives dans la litterature.
Bibliotheques dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Postcolonialism > Great Britain.
Historical fiction, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contemporary fiction, postimperial conditions : romances of the archive
  • Romances of the archive : identifying characteristics : A.S. Byatt and Julian Barnes
  • Wellsprings : Edmund Spenser, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, Josephine Tey, Umberto Eco
  • History or heritage? : Penelope Lively, Barry Unsworth, Peter Ackroyd
  • Time magic and the counterfactual imagination : Kingsley Amis, Lindsay Clarke, Lawrence Norfolk, Nigel Williams
  • Custody of the truth : P.D. James, Robert Harris, Peter Dickinson, Margaret Drabble
  • Envisioning the past : Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones, Robert Goddard, Stevie Davies
  • Epilogue : postcolonial rejoinders : Derek Walcott, Keri Hulme, Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee.

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