...Peter Melville Logan LINDA M. AUSTIN, Nostalgia in Transition: 1780-1917 (Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2007), pp. 248, cloth, $39.50. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Dames , Nicholas . Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870...

...ELIZABETH OUTKA Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Works Cited Baudrillard , Jean . Simulacra and Simulation . Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994 . Behlmer , George K. and Fred M. Leventhal, eds. Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia...

... inclination toward retrospection. Comparable forms of nostalgia for the Edwardian period persist in 1930s fiction and are explored in this essay, along with an inheritance of modernist narrative techniques, in novels including The Memorial, Eyeless in Gaza, A Scots Quair , and Coming Up for Air . The essay...

.... Reading Bolaño's conception of exile as a conciliation between Lukács's and Bakhtin's theories of literature as a form of exile, this essay traces how his novels turn the modern drive to estrangement into a post-auratic nostalgia open to commodification. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited...

... of the fever's spread gives Brown a stark, dramatic way of visualizing the unpredictability built into all such chains of transmission. Rather than a mark of nostalgia for an earlier age of “face-to-face” communication, this interest in casual and ephemeral channels of communication (and indifference to print...

...JOHN KUCICH NICHOLAS DAMES, Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810–1870 (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001), pp. 298 + ix, $24.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Amnesiac Fiction NICHOLAS DAMES, Antnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting...

... this rubric. In many ways, the collection embraces a nostalgia for modernism, and the opening essays take this historical orientation as their conceptual center of gravity. Turning away from the Poundian cliché that has long identified modernism with a will to “make it new,” Randall Stevenson...

... a regime of spatial divisions between colonizer and colonized, exert themselves on both the content and form of Forster's novel. Obsessed with replicating middle-class British val- ues, Forster's colonial society appears increasingly incapacitated by the dictates of nostalgia. However, whereas...

... reconceive of nostalgia in Twilight not merely as a reflection on the past but as itself a text, comprising rituals of repeated gestures and embodied actions. Instances of such nostalgia are thus always already staged, presenting not only the past but also a tableau in which the past, frozen in time...

.... Decades of economic turmoil, work and life precarity, and massive houselessness for large numbers of people have not completely shaken belief in the revitalization of the 1950s that circulates in nostalgia texts. Yet contemporary retro household appliances, newly for sale like the nostalgia they invoke...

... and Derek Walcott. Gui argues that Ishiguro's work reflects “a diasporic subjectivity simultaneously engaging with a national consciousness” (42) articulated, as in The Remains of the Day, through a nostalgic sensibility toward monumentalized forms of national heritage. According to Gui, “the nostalgia...

... balls, heritage films, and coffee table books with bucolic images of England flout or remake the specificities of history. Austen's admirers are often accused of nostalgia, a sort of inauthentic memory of the past, a wishful faith in simulacra. The three books under review here implicitly suggest...

... that can be repaired-even if not by them. In a 2001 interview with Brian Shaffer, Ishiguro addressed the question of another, suspicious emotion evident in his works-nostalgia-and argued that, for all the accusations of escapism and evasion that it frequently generates, nostalgia nevertheless...

... the relationship between imperialism and suburban development in Victorian and Modem British culture. ELIZABETH oUTKA is an Assistant Professor of English at Sewanee (The University of the South). Her current book project, Consuming Traditions, explores the centrality of commodified nostalgia in early...

... a historicist’s eye, expressing nostalgia for the past without adequate sensitivity to the dynamics of causality and continuity that link the past to the present.2 In this essay, I agree 1 he mostT influential theorists of the archive in the past fifty years have been Foucault and Der - rida...

... be approximated even in the oral” (90). Thus “the nostalgia of the distressed genre . . . is a nostalgia for context . . . for the collective experi- ences of preindustrial life” (91). My proposal here is that Stewart’s model offers us a promising way to excavate the divided impulses that frequently...

... [that] . . . must be wrested from the present actuality of the material world”; this stance allows for a shift from nostalgia for a perhaps mythically stable past to a future orientation (113). In the opening to his chapter on O'Connor, Voelz describes his first three treatments of security as “purposefully general...

... to future recollection” and where the reader herself moves through important moments “in a mood of nostalgia” (132, 137). This chapter runs into difficulties when it takes on a more ambitious argument about the sympathy that is generated for Hetty. As the magnitude of Hetty’s crime threatens to cut...

... to a precolonial past in nostalgic gestures of renaissance while at the same time cataloging centuries of exploitation under British rule, Joyce’s Dubliners use nostalgia as a strategic retro- gression aimed to gain political advantage. The citizen, in Ulysses, uses this rhetoric most explicitly...

... as an English event. This perception troubled the delicate distinction between England and Britain, a tension that writers like Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin attempted to solve by nostalgically locating Englishness in the past. Because of this nostalgia, the urban masses of modernity were per- ceived...