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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.

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Author:   E. Rousselot
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.698kg
ISBN:  

9781137375193

ISBN 10:   1137375191
Pages:   197
Publication Date:   27 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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

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