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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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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