Neo-Georgian Fiction: Reimagining the Eighteenth Century in the Contemporary Historical Novel

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Table of Contents
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Introduction: Delineating the Neo-Georgian
	Notes
1 Peter Ackroyd’s Neo-Georgian Fiction: Reconstructing “the Age of Disguise”
	Stories of Frauds
	Masquerade Poetics
	Discourse of the Self
	Notes
2 Defoe’s Foes: The Author As Character
	Coetzee’s Foe; Or, Who Is the Author?
	Dear Mr Foe
	Travels With Defoe
	Notes
3 Beyond Terracentric History: The Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger
	Notes
4 “whose Pictur’d Morals Charm the Mind / And Through the Eye Correct the Heart”1: Rewriting the Pictorial Narrative of A Harlot’s Progress
	Rereading the Harlot’s Story
	Rewriting the Harlot’s Story
	Notes
5 The Blind Man and the Rainbow: Vicarious Experience and Libertinism in The Skull and the Nightingale
	Vicarious Pleasures
	A Blind Man’s Rainbow
	Conclusion
	Notes
6 Renarrating Women’s Stories: Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
	Notes
Bibliography
Index