عنوان

Exoticizing the past in contemporary neo-historical fiction

شابک

1137375205

شابک

9781137375209

شماره

b544358

عنوان اصلي

Exoticizing the past in contemporary neo-historical fiction

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

edited by Elodie Rousselot.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

[Basingstoke]

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Palgrave Macmillan

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014

متن يادداشت

Includes index.

متن يادداشت

Introduction: Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction; Elodie Rousselot --;PART I: EXOTICIZING THE HISTORICAL OTHER --;1. Exoticizing the Tudors: Hilary Mantel's Re-Appropriation of the Past in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies; Rosario Arias --;2. Exoticizing Colonial History: British Authors' Australian Convict Novels; Therese-M. Meyer --;3. Exoticism and Consumption in Anne Enright's The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch; Maeve Tynan --;4. 'We were again on the trail of cannibals': Consuming Trauma and Frustrating Exoticism in Robert Edric's The Book of the Heathen; Emily Scott --;5. 'It's like gold leaf, and now it's rising, peeling away': Britishness and Exoticism in Sarah Waters's The Night Watch; Elsa Cavalǐ --;PART II: EXOTIC FASCINATION / NEO-HISTORICAL SUBVERSION --;6. Cannibalising the Other: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and the Incorporation of 'Exotic' Pasts; Gerd Bayer --;7. Neo-Victorian Experiments with (Natural) History in Harry Karlinsky's The Evolution of Inanimate Objects; Elodie Rousselot --;8. 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement; Nick Bentley --;9. Beasts of Burdened Memories: Exotic Figures in Michael Chabon's Neo- Historical Holocaust Fiction; Mia Spiro --;10. 'A History of Darkness': Exoticizing Strategies and the Nigerian Civil War in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Amy S. Rushton.

متن يادداشت

This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history.

موضوع مستند نشده

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.

موضوع مستند نشده

Historical fiction -- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Historical fiction.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

edited by Elodie Rousselot.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Elodie Rousselot

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y