Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture

by Ann C. Colley and Colley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349406201
• ISBN13: 9781349406203
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"