History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Po...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Kate (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2010
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