Neo-Georgian fiction : reimagining the eighteenth century in the contemporary historical novel / edited by Jakub Lipski and Joanna Maciulewicz.

"This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical attention. The essays included in this collection study the ways in which the selected twentieth- and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Lipski, Jakub (Editor), Maciulewicz, Joanna (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge focus on literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Delineating the neo-Georgian / Jakub Lipski and Joanna Maciulewicz
  • Peter Ackroyd's neo-Georgian fiction : reconstructing "the Age of Disguise" / Jakub Lipski
  • Defoe's foes : the author as character / Daniel Cook
  • Beyond terracentric history : eighteenth-century slave trade in Barry Unsworth's Sacred hunger / Przemysław Uściński
  • "Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind
  • And through the eye correct the heart" : re-writing the pictorial narrative of A harlot's progress / M-C. Newbould
  • The blind man and the rainbow : vicarious experience and libertinism in The skull and the nightingale / Tymon Adamczewski
  • Renarrating women's stories in Imogen Hermes Gowar's The mermaid and Mrs. Hancock / Joanna Maciulewicz.