Exoticising the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction

Introduction: Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction; Elodie Rousselot PART I: EXOTICIZING THE HISTORICAL OTHER1. Exoticizing the Tudors: Hilary Mantel's Re-Appropriation of the Past in <EM>Wolf Hall</EM> and <EM>Bring Up the Bodies</EM>; Rosario Arias2. Exoticizing Colonial History: British Authors' Australian Convict Novels; Therese-M. Meyer3. Exoticism and Consumption in Anne Enright's <EM>The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch</EM>; Maeve Tynan 4. 'We were again on the trail of cannibals': Consuming Trauma and Frustrating Exoticism in Robert Edric's <EM>The Book of the Heathen</EM>; Emily Scott 5. 'It's like gold leaf, and now it's rising, peeling away': Britishness and Exoticism in Sarah Waters's <EM>The Night Watch</EM>; Elsa Cavalié PART II: EXOTIC FASCINATION / NEO-HISTORICAL SUBVERSION 6. Cannibalising the Other: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and the Incorporation of 'Exotic' Pasts; Gerd Bayer 7. Neo-Victorian Experiments with (Natural) History in Harry Karlinsky's<EM> The Evolution of Inanimate Objects</EM>; Elodie Rousselot8. 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's <EM>The Remains of the Day</EM> and Ian McEwan's <EM>Atonement</EM>; Nick Bentley9. Beasts of Burdened Memories: Exotic Figures in Michael Chabon's Neo- Historical Holocaust Fiction; Mia Spiro10. 'A History of Darkness': Exoticizing Strategies and the Nigerian Civil War in<EM> Half of a Yellow Sun</EM> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Amy S. RushtonIndex

Edited By Elodie Rousselot