Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture

Download or read book Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture written by A. Colley and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-10-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.