Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction / / Suzanne Keen.
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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Keen, Suzanne, author. Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction / Suzanne Keen. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2001 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Contemporary Fiction, Postimperial Conditions -- 2. Romances of the Archive: Identifying Characteristics / Byatt, A.S. / Barnes, Julian -- 3. Wellsprings / Spenser, Edmund / James, Henry / Lovecraft, H.R / Tey, Josephine / Eco, Umberto -- 4. History or Heritage? / Lively, Penelope / Unswortb, Barry / Ackroyd, Peter -- 5. Time Magic and the Coimterfactual Imagination / Amis, Kingsley / Clarke, Lindsay / Norfolk, Lawrence / Williams, Nigel -- 6. Custody of the Truth / James, P.D. / Harris, Robert / Dickinson, Peter / Drabble, Margaret -- 7. Envisioning the Past / Hollinghurst, Alan / Mars-Jones, Adam / Goddard, Robert / Davies, Stevie -- Epilogue: Postcolonial Rejoinders / Walcott, Derek / Hulme, Keri / Ghosh, Amitav / Mukberjee, Bharati -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 'romances of the archive,' a genre in which British novelists both deal with the loss of Empire and a nostalgia for the past, and react to the postimperial condition of Great Britain. Keen identifies the genre and explains its literary sources from Edmund Spenser to H.P. Lovecraft and John LeCarre. She also accounts for the rise in popularity of the archival romance and provides a context for understanding the British postimperial preoccupation with history and heritage.Avoiding a narrow focus on postmodernist fiction alone, Keen treats archival romances from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning Possession to the paperback thrillers of popular novelists. Using the work of Peter Ackroyd, Julian Barnes, Lindsay Clarke, Stevie Davies, Peter Dickinson, Alan Hollinghurst, P.D. James, Graham Swift, and others, Keen shows how archival romances insist that there is a truth and that it can be found. By characterizing the researcher who investigates, then learns the joys, costs, and consequences of discovery, Romances of the Archive persistently questions the purposes of historical knowledge and the kind of reading that directs the imagination to conceive the past. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Archives in literature. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. Historical fiction, English History and criticism. Libraries in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110667691 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9780802086846 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442679450 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442679450.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Contemporary Fiction, Postimperial Conditions -- 2. Romances of the Archive: Identifying Characteristics / 3. Wellsprings / 4. History or Heritage? / 5. Time Magic and the Coimterfactual Imagination / 6. Custody of the Truth / 7. Envisioning the Past / Epilogue: Postcolonial Rejoinders / Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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