Epistolary encounters in neo-victorian fiction : diaries and letters

The Resource Epistolary encounters in neo-victorian fiction : diaries and letters

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Epistolary encounters in neo-victorian fiction : diaries and letters

Title remainder

diaries and letters

Statement of responsibility

Kym Brindle

Language

eng

Summary

Epistolary strategies play a central role in the contemporary imagination that rewrites Victorian culture. Neo-Victorian writers invoke conflicting viewpoints in diaries, letters, and other addressed accounts to creatively retrace the past in fragmentary, incomplete, and contradictory ways. Epistolary practices intensify neo-Victorian concerns with processes of fragmentation, as interrupted and riddling messages disrupt rather than illuminate communication between past and present. This book provides detailed analyses of writerly strategies that readdress and redeliver the Victorians to us with the promise of epistolary secrets. Yet in contrast to the nineteenth-century fiction that embeds documents to expose and explain secrets, embedded documents in neo-Victorian fiction contrive to deconstruct how investigatory reading and interpretation take place. Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Diaries and Letters explores the complex writerly and readerly desires implicated in epistolary discoveries of 'hidden' Victorians and offers new insight into the creative synthesising of critical perspectives within the neo-Victorian novel. --Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.9109353

Index

index present

LC call number

PR888.L47

LC item number

B75 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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