Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-H...

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Rosario Arias, University of Málaga, Spain
Gerd Bayer, Erlangen University, Germany
Nick Bentley, University of Keele, UK
Elsa Cavalié, University of Toulouse, France
Therese-M. Meyer, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Amy S. Rushton, University of Manchester, UK
Emily Scott, University of Portsmouth, UK
Mia Spiro, University of Glasgow, UK
Maeve Tynan, Independent Scholar, Ireland

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Cavalié 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 Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xi 197 S.
ISBN-13:	9781349477241
ISBN-10:	1349477249
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Rousselot, E.
Redaktion:	Rousselot, E.
Herausgeber:	E Rousselot
Auflage:	1st edition 2014
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	E. Rousselot
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.01.2014
Gewicht:	0,274 kg

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