Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture

Ann C. Colley is Professor of English at the State University College of New York at Buffalo.

• List of Illustrations Introduction PART I: VOYAGES AND EXILE Nostalgia and the Voyage of the Beagle The Last of England and the Representation of Longing R.L. Stevenson's Nationalism and the Dualities of Exile The 'Shaking, Uncertain Ground' of Elizabeth Gaskell's Narratives PART II: CHILDHOOD SPACES The Landscape of A Child's Garden of Verses Rooms without Mirrors: The Childhood Interiors of Ruskin, Pater, and Stevenson PART III: THE IDEA OF RECOLLECTION R.L. Stevenson and the Idea of Recollection From the Vignette to the Rectangular: Bergson, Turner, and Remembrance Afterthoughts: Nostalgia Endnotes Index

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