Reading Historical Fiction

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: 'Reading the Represented Past: History and Fiction from 1700 to the Present; K.Mitchell & N.Parsons Learning to Read the Past in the Early Historical Novel; A.Stevens Temporal Systems in Representations of the Past: Contingency, Free Will and Irony in Historical Fiction; H.Dalley 'All histories are against you?': Family History, Domestic History and the Feminine Past in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; M.Spongberg Rereading Hogarth and Pope: Authenticity and Academic Fictions of the Eighteenth Century; J.Ward 'Panoramic Byron: Reading, History and Pre-cinematic Spectacle; H.Groth 'The Painted Record' in George Eliot's Historical Novel Romola; K.Marler-Kennedy Reading and Remembering History in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year; N.Parsons The Gothic Reader: History, Fear and Trembling; D.Wallace Notes towards a Poethics of Spectrality: The Examples of Neo-Victorian Textuality; J.Wolfreys Dickens and Ways of Seeing the French Revolution: A Tale of Two Cities; J.Mee The Uses of History: The Historical Novel in the Post-French Revolution Debate and Ellis Cornelia Knight's Marcus Flaminius (1792); F.Price The Living Past and the Fellowship of Sacrificial Violence in William Morris's A Dream of John Ball; I.Hanson Bibliography Index