Before Our Eyes
Romantic Historical Fiction and the Apparitions of Reading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4880978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ina Ferris (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-84 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2013.121.1.60 |
| OpenAlex | W2088645683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay reads the seminal historical fiction of Walter Scott in conjunction with the medical apparition discourse that flourished in the early nineteenth century. It argues that the tactics of the historical novel in this period are best understood through an "apparitional poetics" that attempts to solve the problem of the historical image
Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Romance · American and British Literature Analysis · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |