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

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

Edited By Jakub Lipski, Joanna Maciulewicz Copyright 2021
138 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has　so　far received little critical attention. The essays included in this collection study the ways in which the selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels recreate the Georgian period in order to view its ideologies through the lens... Read more

Introduction: Defining the Neo-Georgian

Jakub Lipski and Joanna Maciulewicz

  1. Peter Ackroyd’s Neo-Georgian Fiction: Reconstructing "the Age of Disguise"

    2. Jakub Lipski

  2. Defoe’s Foes: The Author as Character

    3. Daniel Cook

  3. Beyond Terracentric History: The Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger

    4. Przemysław Uściński

  4. "Whose pictur’d Morals charm the Mind / And through the Eye correct the Heart": Re-writing the Pictorial Narrative of A Harlot’s Progress

    5. M-C. Newbould

  5. The Blind Man and the Rainbow: Vicarious Experience and Libertinism in The Skull and the Nightingale

    6. Tymon Adamczewski

  6. Renarrating Women’s Stories in Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Joanna Maciulewicz

Biography

Jakub Lipski is Associate Professor of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His research interests include eighteenth-century English fiction and culture, the correspondences between word and image, and reception and adaptation studies. He is the author of In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2014), Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018) and editor of Rewriting Crusoe: The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media (2020).

Joanna Maciulewicz　is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She is the author of Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing (2018). Her research interests focus on eighteenth-century literature and culture, the history of the book and the theory of early English, Spanish and Polish fiction. She is an assistant editor of Studia Anglica Posnaniensia.

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