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Author:   Camilla Cassidy
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   231
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9789004526501

ISBN 10:   9004526501
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   03 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures Introduction  1 Nostalgia  1.1 Origins of “Nostalgia” and What Came Before  1.2 Nostalgia for a Place: Local and Global  1.3 Nostalgia for a Time  1.4 Return: Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia  1.5 Belated Nostalgias  2 Writing History in Changing Times  3 The Historical Novel: Nostalgic Fictions in Times of Change  3.1 The Napoleonic Wars and Historical Fiction  3.2 History and Biography: Novels of the Recent Past  3.3 History and Fiction in Historical Fiction  3.4 Structures of Desire: The Nostalgic Historical Novel  4 Chapters 1 Sylvia’s Lovers and the Press Gang  1 The Art of Forgetfulness  2 Homesickness and the Press-Ganged Soldier in Sylvia’s Lovers (1863)  2.1 Napoleon, Nostalgia, and the Historical Novel  2.2 Readability and Forgetfulness  2.3 Leave-Taking 2 Thackeray’s Homesick Soldiers  1 Wavering Heroes and the Middle Way  2 Walter Scott and Intertextuality  3 Nostalgia as a ‘Swiss Disease’: Exiles and Homesick Soldiers  4 Autobiography  5 Battlefields in Historical Fiction 3 George Eliot’s Foregone Conclusions 4 Charles Dickens’s Iron Times 5 Strangers in Wessex  1 Belated Nostalgia and Regional Fiction: A Time and a Place  2 Hardy’s English Peasants  2.1 The Return of the Native: What Is Doing Well?  3 Itinerant Workers: Metaphors of Roots, Migrancy and Labour  3.1 The Mayor of Casterbridge: A Man Must Live Where His Money Is Made  4 Consuming Nostalgia: A Poeticised Pathology  4.1 Historical Fictions: Authentic and Inauthentic Pasts  5 Between History and Memory: The Dorsetshire Labourer and the Homesick Soldier Conclusion  1 Why Don’t We Take Nostalgia Seriously Anymore?  2 Subjectivity and ‘Good’ History  3 Politics and Ideology  4 Imagination and Environment Appendix 1: Images Appendix 2: Unpublished Mss Transcriptions Selected Bibliography Index

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Camilla Cassidy holds a DPhil in nineteenth-century literature from the University of Oxford and teaches Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Faculty of Sustainability at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

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