Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture - by A Colley (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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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This is a fine work: insightful, novel, and elegantly written. Choice

About the Author

Ann C. Colley is Professor of English at the State University College of New York at Buffalo.