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Romances of the archive in contemporary British fiction
- Title
- Romances of the archive in contemporary British fiction / Suzanne Keen.
- Author
- Keen, Suzanne.
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.
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Details
- Description
- x, 288 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction is a discussion of the debates about the uses of the past contained in British fiction since the Falklands crisis. 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."--Jacket
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Historical fiction, English > History and criticism
- Postcolonialism > Great Britain
- Decolonization in literature
- Libraries in literature
- Archives in literature
- Stagecoach robberies
- Archives in literature
- Decolonization in literature
- English fiction
- Historical fiction, English
- Libraries in literature
- Literature and history
- Postcolonialism
- Stagecoach robberies
- Geschichte Motiv
- Archiv Motiv
- Vergangenheit Motiv
- Roman
- Archieven
- Het Verleden
- Postkolonialisme
- Romans
- Archiv > Motiv > Roman > englischer
- Roman > englischer > Motiv > Archiv
- Geschichte > Motiv > Roman > englischer
- Roman > englischer > Motiv > Geschichte
- Literatur > Englisch > Motiv (Literatur) > Geschichte (Begriff) > Geschichte > 1980-2000
- Geschichte (Begriff) > Motiv (Literatur) > Englisch > Geschichte > 1980-2000
- Geschichte 1970-2000
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-272) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0802035892
- 9780802035899
- 0802086845
- 9780802086846
- LCCN
- 2002284299
- 9780802035899
- OCLC
- ocm47200975
- 47200975
- SCSB-14512942
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library