Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870

by Nicholas Dames

Book Overview

With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, Amnesiac Selves shows that the Victorian novel bears no such secure relation to memory, and, in fact, it tries to hide, evade, and eliminate remembering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195173090
• ISBN13: 9780195173093
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.5"