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Author Keen, Suzanne.

Title Romances of the archive in contemporary British fiction / Suzanne Keen.

Imprint Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.9109358 K25r 2001    ---  Available
Description x, 288 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-272) and index.
Contents Contemporary fiction, postimperial conditions : romances of the archive -- Romances of the archive : identifying characteristics : A.S. Byatt and Julian Barnes -- Wellsprings : Edmund Spenser, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, Josephine Tey, Umberto Eco -- History or heritage? : Penelope Lively, Barry Unsworth, Peter Ackroyd -- Time magic and the counterfactual imagination : Kingsley Amis, Lindsay Clarke, Lawrence Norfolk, Nigel Williams -- Custody of the truth : P.D. James, Robert Harris, Peter Dickinson, Margaret Drabble -- Envisioning the past : Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones, Robert Goddard, Stevie Davies -- Epilogue : postcolonial rejoinders : Derek Walcott, Keri Hulme, Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee.
Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Libraries in literature.
Archives in literature.
Postcolonialism -- Great Britain.
ISBN 0802035892
Standard No. NLC 20019016956

 
    
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