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Twilight Histories - Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel (Hardcover)
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Twilight Histories - Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Costerus New Series, 231
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Twilight Histories explores the relationship between nostalgia and
the Victorian historical novel, arguing that both responded to the
turbulence brought by accelerating modernisation. Nostalgia began
as a pathological homesickness, its first victims
seventeenth-century soldiers serving abroad. Only gradually did it
become the sentimental memory we understand it as today. In a
striking parallel to nostalgia's origin, the historical novel
emerged in the tumultuous early-years of the nineteenth century, at
a time when the Napoleonic Wars once again set troops on the move,
creating a new wave of homesick soldiers. In the historical novels
of Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy, nostalgia offered
a language in which to describe the experience of living through
changing times as a homesickness for history.
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