Titlebook: Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction; Diaries and Letters Kym Brindle Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publi

弄皱

pulmonary-edema

compassion

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137007162Neo-victorian; literature; diaries; letters; epistolary; fiction; fragment; novel; Victorian era; British and

假

,Introduction: ‘,’,diary using an innovative shorthand system of the day.. Speculating that his writing displaces an older tradition whereby a modest woman would sit at the same desk to write love letters he embraces progress, but takes care to acknowledge the powers of the past. Today, shorthand, alongside handwritte

被诅咒的人

Diary and Letter Strategies Past and Present, disorderly documents fashion and fabricate a pastiche of the Victorian past. There are both similarities and significant differences between nineteenth-century and contemporary fiction’s use of epistolary devices. The epistolary novel comprised purely of letters famously had its heyday in the eight

额外的事

,Riddles and Relics: Critical Correspondence in A. S. Byatt’s , and ,ce of the archive’.. Byatt believes there are diverse reasons to keep the past ‘alive’, one of which is ‘the aesthetic need to write coloured and metaphorical language, to keep past literatures alive and singing, connecting the pleasure of writing to the pleasure of reading’.. Her novel attempts to

小平面

,Spectral Diarists: Sarah Waters’s , and Melissa Pritchard’s ,,t within fiction. Writers repeatedly conjure the riddling world of nineteenth-century spiritualism with ‘authentic’ and ‘sincere’ diary voices that test the mysteries and contrived counterfeiting of mediumistic practices. Demonstrating an affinity between epistolary strategies and the keen neo-Victo

scrape

brachial-plexus

,Lewis Carroll and the Curious Theatre of Modernity: Epistolary Pursuit in Katie Roiphe’s ,, photographing children in what he termed ‘their favourite state of nothing to wear’.. The novel — a pastiche or kaleidoscope vision of Carrollania — mediates a debate generated by Victorian secrets and retrospective suspicions and uses diary form to consider how rumour and suspicion shape contempor

Exclude