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Author:

Dames, Nicholas, 1970-

Title:

Amnesiac selves : nostalgia, forgetting, and British fiction, 1810-1870 / Nicholas Dames.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

viii, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Amnesia in literature.
Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.
Autobiographical memory in literature.
Nostalgia in literature.
Memory in literature.
Self in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index.

Contents:

Austen's nostalgics -- Amnesiac bodies: phrenology, physiognomy, and memory in Charlotte Brontë -- Associated fictions: Dickens, Thackeray, and mid-century fictional autobiography -- The birth of amnesia: Collins, sensation, forgetting -- The unremembered past: Eliot's Romola and amnesiac histories.

ISBN:

9780195143577 (alk. paper)
0195143574 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45201918

LCCN:

00050157

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)