An edition of Romances of the archive in contemporary British fiction (2001)
Romances of the archive in contemporary British fiction
By Suzanne Keen
Publish Date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press,University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Language
eng
Pages
293
Description:
"Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction is a discussion of the debates about the uses of the past contained in British fiction since the Falklands crisis. Suzanne Keen provides a detailed examination of the range of contemporary 'romances of the archive,' a genre in which British novelists both deal with the loss of Empire and a nostalgia for the past, and react to the postimperial condition of Great Britain. Keen identifies the genre and explains its literary sources from Edmund Spenser to H. P. Lovecraft and John LeCarre. She also accounts for the rise in popularity of the archival romance and provides a context for understanding the British postimperial preoccupation with history and heritage."--BOOK JACKET.
subjects: Archives in literature, Decolonization in literature, English Historical fiction, English fiction, Historical fiction, English, History, History and criticism, Libraries in literature, Literature and history, Postcolonialism, Stagecoach robberies, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Libraries, Archives, Roman anglais, Histoire et critique, Bibliothèques dans la littérature, Archives dans la littérature
Places: Great Britain
Times: 20th century