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Cultural Theory
Literary Theory
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Conclusion: ‘What will count as history?’
This book has traced the re-creation of the Victorian era in recent historical fictions, focusing on novels by Graham Swift, A. S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys and Gail Jones. It has argued that that t...
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Introduction: ‘I told you we’d been invaded by Victoriana’
In 1918 Ezra Pound coined the term ‘Victoriana’ as a way of pejoratively characterising the Victorian past: ‘For most of us, the odour of defunct Victoriana is so unpleasant … that we are content to leave the ...
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Memory Texts: History, Fiction and the Historical Imaginary
It is, perhaps, no coincidence that neo-Victorian fiction achieves momentum at around the time when personal memory of the Victorians was slip** away. By the 1980s there could be few, if any, Victorians left...
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A Fertile Excess: Waterland, Desire and the Historical Sublime
For Tom Crick, the narrator of Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), history’s referent does not exist. ‘Reality is that nothing happens’ (40). Yet histories, stories and ‘making things happen’ proliferate, circulate ...
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‘Making it seem like it’s authentic’: the Faux-Victorian Novel as Cultural Memory in Affinity and Fingersmith
If Possession asserts the ‘truth of the imagination’, then Affinity (1999) and Fingersmith (2002) harness this truth to invent a genealogy of lesbian desire that exists only as shadows at the margins of Victorian...
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Contemporary Victorian(ism)s
Even in the twenty-first century we inhabit Victorian urban space. The streets and buildings are a palimpsest, but these reinscriptions never effect the full erasure of the past and this, at times, produces a ...
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(Dis)Possessing Knowledge: A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance
In April 1992, in an article for Newsweek entitled ‘Don’t Undo Our Work’, Margaret Thatcher claimed that during her terms as prime minister ‘we reclaimed our heritage’ (Thatcher, 1992). As we have seen, her platf...
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‘The alluring patina of loss’: Photography, Memory, and Memory Texts in Sixty Lights and Afterimage
Writing about historical recollection and material culture, Elizabeth Edwards asserts that ‘photographs are perhaps the most ubiquitous and insistent focus of nineteenth- and twentieth-century memory’ (Edwards...
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Correction to: Pynchon and Philosophy
All chapters in the book are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Correction to: Foodscapes of Contemporary Japanese Women Writers
Author name is incorrectly captured in all chapters of this book. The correct author name should be Masami Yuki. This has been corrected.
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Erratum
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Introduction
This is a first attempt to assess the worldwide state of the humanities. We present this report fully conscious that it will be found wanting in important aspects. Yet we believe that an attempt, however falte...
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Conclusion
In this conclusion we start by giving an overview of the preceding chapters and finish by making some recommendations based on our research.
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The Nature of the Humanities
This chapter falls into two parts and is based upon the interview responses. The first part asks whether there are any patterns detectable in the research themes or topics chosen for humanities research. We fo...
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Translating the Humanities
This chapter explores the different ways in which research’s insights and results are communicated and translated to beyond university boundaries. First we outline the flow of academic knowledge from researche...
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Funding and Infrastructure
This chapter is concerned with the questions: Is funding for the humanities adequate? Do we have adequate infrastructure for humanities research? Are the institutional parameters of the humanities fit for the ...
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The Value of the Humanities
What is the value of the humanities? This is a question that guides us throughout this report as we seek conceptual clarity and credibility for practices in digital humanities, knowledge exchange, globalisatio...
