Twilight Histories: Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel (Costerus New Series, 231)

Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
	1 Nostalgia
		1.1 Origins of “Nostalgia” and What Came Before
		1.2 Nostalgia for a Place: Local and Global
		1.3 Nostalgia for a Time
		1.4 Return: Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia
		1.5 Belated Nostalgias
	2 Writing History in Changing Times
	3 The Historical Novel: Nostalgic Fictions in Times of Change
		3.1 The Napoleonic Wars and Historical Fiction
		3.2 History and Biography: Novels of the Recent Past
		3.3 History and Fiction in Historical Fiction
		3.4 Structures of Desire: The Nostalgic Historical Novel
	4 Chapters
Chapter 1 Sylvia’s Lovers and the Press Gang
	1 The Art of Forgetfulness
	2 Homesickness and the Press-Ganged Soldier in Sylvia’s Lovers (1863)
		2.1 Napoleon, Nostalgia, and the Historical Novel
		2.2 Readability and Forgetfulness
		2.3 Leave-Taking
Chapter 2 Thackeray’s Homesick Soldiers
	1 Wavering Heroes and the Middle Way
	2 Walter Scott and Intertextuality
	3 Nostalgia as a ‘Swiss Disease’: Exiles and Homesick Soldiers
	4 Autobiography
	5 Battlefields in Historical Fiction
Chapter 3 George Eliot’s Foregone Conclusions
Chapter 4 Charles Dickens’s Iron Times
Chapter 5 Strangers in Wessex
	1 Belated Nostalgia and Regional Fiction: A Time and a Place
	2 Hardy’s English Peasants
		2.1 The Return of the Native: What Is Doing Well?
	3 Itinerant Workers: Metaphors of Roots, Migrancy and Labour
		3.1 The Mayor of Casterbridge: A Man Must Live Where His Money Is Made
	4 Consuming Nostalgia: A Poeticised Pathology
		4.1 Historical Fictions: Authentic and Inauthentic Pasts
	5 Between History and Memory: The Dorsetshire Labourer and the Homesick Soldier
Conclusion
	1 Why Don’t We Take Nostalgia Seriously Anymore?
	2 Subjectivity and ‘Good’ History
	3 Politics and Ideology
	4 Imagination and Environment
Appendix 1 Images
Appendix 2 Unpublished Mss Transcriptions
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Selected Bibliography
	1 Manuscripts
	2 Books and Articles
Index of Contemporary Authors
Index of Themes and Subjects
Index of Sources and Primary Texts