Title Amnesiac selves : nostalgia, forgetting, and British fiction, 1810-1870 / Nicholas Dames

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) : illustrations Series OUP E-Books Contents Austen's nostalgics -- Amnesiac bodies: phrenology, physiognomy, and memory in Charlotte Brontë -- Associated fictions: Dickens, Thackeray, and mid-century fictional autobiography -- The birth of amnesia: Collins, sensation, forgetting -- The unremembered past: Eliot's Romola and amnesiac histories Summary With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, Amnesiac Selves shows that the Victorian novel bears no such secure relation to memory, and, in fact, it tries to hide, evade, and eliminate remembering. Dames argues that the notable scarcity and distinct unease of representations of remembrance in the nineteenth-century British novel signal an Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Amnesia in literature. Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism Autobiographical memory in literature. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Nostalgia in literature. Memory in literature. Self in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Amnesia in literature Autobiographical memory in literature English fiction Loss (Psychology) in literature Memory in literature Nostalgia in literature Psychological fiction, English Self in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 00050157 ISBN 9780195349450 0195349458 1602564469 9781602564466 9780195143577 0195143574 1280531436 9781280531439 0195186079 9780195186079 9786610531431 6610531439

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