Reading the represented past

history and fiction from 1700 to the present

Käte Mitchell, Nicola Parsons

1-18

Learning to read the past in the early historical novel

Anne H. Stevens

19-32

Temporal systems in representations of the past

distance, freedom and irony in historical fiction

Hamish Dalley

33-49

"All histories are against you?"

family history, domestic history and the feminine past in northanger abbey and persuasion

Mary Spongberg

50-66

Rereading Hogarth and Pope

authenticity and academic fictions of the eighteenth century

James Ward

67-84

Panoramic Byron

reading, history and pre-cinematic spectacle

Helen Groth

85-100

"The painted record" in George Eliot's historical novel Romola

Kara Marler-Kennedy

101-118

Reading and remembering history in Daniel Defoe's a journal of the plague year

Nicola Parsons

119-135

The gothic reader

history, fear and trembling

Diana Wallace

136-152

Notes towards a poethics of spectrality

the examples of neo-victorian textuality

Julian Wolfreys

153-171

Dickens and ways of seeing the French revolution

a tale of two cities

Jon Mee

172-186

The uses of history

the historical novel in the post-french revolution debate and ellis cornelia Knight's Marcus flaminius (1792)

Fiona Price

187-203

The living past and the fellowship of sacrificial violence in William Morris's a dream of John Ball

Ingrid Hanson

204-219