Renaissances, Resurrections and Rewritings: A Neo-Victorian Poetics of Exhumation

In both Graham Swift’s Ever After (1992) and A. S. Byatt’s Possession (1990) the contemporary protagonists find new life in the unearthing of Victorian documents and in this combination of contemporary and Victorian renaissances might be detected the assumption that the revival of the past always al...

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Main Author: Christian Gutleben
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2022-06-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/11793