Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Exoticising the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Exoticising the Tudors: Hilary Mantel’s Re-Appropriation of the Past in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies....Pages 19-36
Exoticising Colonial History: British Authors’ Australian Convict Novels....Pages 37-54
Exoticism and Consumption in Anne Enright’s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch....Pages 55-68
‘We were again on the trail of cannibals’: Consuming Trauma and Frustrating Exoticism in Robert Edric’s The Book of the Heathen....Pages 69-83
‘It’s like gold leaf, and now it’s rising, peeling away’: Britishness and Exoticism in Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch....Pages 84-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Cannibalising the Other: David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and the Incorporation of ‘Exotic’ Pasts....Pages 103-119
Neo-Victorian Experiments with (Natural) History in Harry Karlinsky’s The Evolution of Inanimate Objects....Pages 120-137
‘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....Pages 138-159
Beasts of Burdened Memories: Exotic Figures in Michael Chabon’s Neo-Historical Holocaust Fiction....Pages 160-177
‘A History of Darkness’: Exoticising Strategies and the Nigerian Civil War in Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie....Pages 178-195
Back Matter....Pages 196-197