{"product_id":"twilight-histories-camilla-cassidy-9789004526501","title":"Twilight Histories: Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel","description":"\u003ci\u003eTwilight Histories\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between nostalgia and the Victorian historical novel, arguing that both responded to the turbulence brought by accelerating modernisation. Nostalgia began as a pathological homesickness, its first victims seventeenth-century soldiers serving abroad. Only gradually did it become the sentimental memory we understand it as today. In a striking parallel to nostalgia's origin, the historical novel emerged in the tumultuous early-years of the nineteenth century, at a time when the Napoleonic Wars once again set troops on the move, creating a new wave of homesick soldiers. In the historical novels of Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy, nostalgia offered a language in which to describe the experience of living through changing times as a homesickness for history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTwilight Histories\u003c\/i\u003e has been included in Oxford Bibliographies' Historical Novel category, where it has been reviewed as \"[a]n illuminating study of mid-Victorian novels of the recent past--the period of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Camilla Cassidy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004526501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004526501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Camilla Cassidy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069316165887,"sku":"9789004526501","price":138.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f002bc2f-0392-4ce6-9af8-8583bae6cfef.jpg?v=1685424037","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/twilight-histories-camilla-cassidy-9789004526501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}