Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceModern19th CenturySociologyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsEuropeanHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
1998Book
Author(s)Ann C. Colley
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333728130
LanguageEnglish
