Neo-Georgian Fiction: Reimagining the Eighteenth Century in the Contemporary Historical Novel

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Author(s): Jakub Lipski and Joanna Maciulewicz
Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021

Language: English

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction: Delineating the Neo-Georgian
Notes
1 Peter Ackroyd’s Neo-Georgian Fiction: Reconstructing “the Age of Disguise”
Stories of Frauds
Masquerade Poetics
Discourse of the Self
Notes
2 Defoe’s Foes: The Author As Character
Coetzee’s Foe; Or, Who Is the Author?
Dear Mr Foe
Travels With Defoe
Notes
3 Beyond Terracentric History: The Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger
Notes
4 “whose Pictur’d Morals Charm the Mind / And Through the Eye Correct the Heart”1: Rewriting the Pictorial Narrative of A Harlot’s Progress
Rereading the Harlot’s Story
Rewriting the Harlot’s Story
Notes
5 The Blind Man and the Rainbow: Vicarious Experience and Libertinism in The Skull and the Nightingale
Vicarious Pleasures
A Blind Man’s Rainbow
Conclusion
Notes
6 Renarrating Women’s Stories: Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
Notes
Bibliography
Index