This book is about a group of Victorian British writers and artists (Darwin, Stevenson, Gaskell, Ruskin, Pater, Brown and Turner) whose work emerges from recollection and whose texts embody the experience of nostalgia. The study concentrates on the longing for a past that traverses the span of these writers' and artists' own lifetime. It examines their particular experience of the nostalgic moment and provides an occasion to re-examine the idea of nostalgia and to reflect on the act of recollection.
| ISBN: | 9780312216641 |
| Publication date: | 12th December 1998 |
| Author: | Ann C Colley |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 218 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Cultural studies Linguistics Literature: history and criticism |