LEADER 04983nam 2200817 450 001 9910456308103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99636-X 010 $a9786611996369 010 $a1-4426-7945-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442679450 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001831 035 $a(EBL)3255093 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000308615 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11225436 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000308615 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10276832 035 $a(PQKB)11085708 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600913 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255093 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671919 035 $a(DE-B1597)464833 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938961 035 $a(OCoLC)944177650 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442679450 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671919 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257607 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199636 035 $a(OCoLC)958579519 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001831 100 $a20160922e20032001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRomances of the archive in contemporary British fiction /$fSuzanne Keen 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2003. 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (299 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-8684-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Contemporary Fiction, Postimperial Conditions -- $t2. Romances of the Archive: Identifying Characteristics / $rByatt, A.S. / Barnes, Julian -- $t3. Wellsprings / $rSpenser, Edmund / James, Henry / Lovecraft, H.R / Tey, Josephine / Eco, Umberto -- $t4. History or Heritage? / $rLively, Penelope / Unswortb, Barry / Ackroyd, Peter -- $t5. Time Magic and the Coimterfactual Imagination / $rAmis, Kingsley / Clarke, Lindsay / Norfolk, Lawrence / Williams, Nigel -- $t6. Custody of the Truth / $rJames, P.D. / Harris, Robert / Dickinson, Peter / Drabble, Margaret -- $t7. Envisioning the Past / $rHollinghurst, Alan / Mars-Jones, Adam / Goddard, Robert / Davies, Stevie -- $tEpilogue: Postcolonial Rejoinders / $rWalcott, Derek / Hulme, Keri / Ghosh, Amitav / Mukberjee, Bharati -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aRomances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction is a lively discussion of the debates about the uses of the past contained in British fiction since the Falklands crisis. Drawing on a diverse and original body of work, 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.Avoiding a narrow focus on postmodernist fiction alone, Keen treats archival romances from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning Possession to the paperback thrillers of popular novelists. Using the work of Peter Ackroyd, Julian Barnes, Lindsay Clarke, Stevie Davies, Peter Dickinson, Alan Hollinghurst, P.D. James, Graham Swift, and others, Keen shows how archival romances insist that there is a truth and that it can be found. By characterizing the researcher who investigates, then learns the joys, costs, and consequences of discovery, Romances of the Archive persistently questions the purposes of historical knowledge and the kind of reading that directs the imagination to conceive the past. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHistorical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPostcolonialism$zGreat Britain 606 $aDecolonization in literature 606 $aLibraries in literature 606 $aArchives in literature 606 $aStagecoach robberies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aHistorical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aDecolonization in literature. 615 0$aLibraries in literature. 615 0$aArchives in literature. 615 0$aStagecoach robberies. 676 $a823/.9109358 700 $aKeen$b Suzanne$0854578 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456308103321 996 $aRomances of the archive in contemporary British fiction$92479015 997 $aUNINA