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724639
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b544358
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edited by Elodie Rousselot.
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Exoticizing the past in contemporary neo-historical fiction\ edited by Elodie Rousselot.
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| Publication Statement
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[Basingstoke]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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1137375205
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: 9781137375209
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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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 Cavalǐ --;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.
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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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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Historical fiction -- History and criticism.
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Historical fiction.
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PN3441.E358 2014
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Elodie Rousselot
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