Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture

Colley, A.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-12-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312216641

DOI: 10.1057/9780230373112

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 218