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NOSTALGIA AND RECOLLECTION IN VICTORIAN CULTURE Also by Ann C. Colley EDWARD LEAR AND THE CRITICS THE SEARCH FOR SYNTHESIS IN LITERATURE AND ART The Paradox of Space TENNYSON AND MADNESS Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture Ann C. Colley First published in Great Britain 1998 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-40620-3 ISBN 978-0-230-37311-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057 /9780230373112 First published in the United States of America 1998 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-21664-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Colley, Ann C. Nostalgia and recollection in Victorian culture I Ann C. Colley. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-21664-1 (cloth) 1. English literature-19th century-History and criticism. 2. Nostalgia-Great Britain-History-19th century. 3. Great Britain-Histmy-Victoria, 1837-1901. 4. Great Britain -Civilization-19th century. 5. Autobiographical memory in literature. 6. Nostalgia in literature. 7. Memory in literature. I. Title. PR468.N64C65 1998 820.9'353-dc21 98-7211 CIP ©Ann C. Colley 1998 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 978-0-333-72813-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 For Constance Meta Cheetham This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Plates viii Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part I: Voyages and Exile 13 1 Nostalgia and the Voyage of the Beagle 15 2 The Last of England and the Representation of Longing 32 3 R.L. Stevenson's Nationalism and the Dualities of Exile 54 4 The 'shaking, uncertain ground' of Elizabeth Gaskell's Narratives 73 Part II: Childhood Spaces 105 5 The Landscape of A Child's Garden of Verses 107 6 Rooms Without Mirrors: The Childhood Interiors of Ruskin, Pater, and Stevenson 124 Part III: The Idea of Recollection 155 7 R.L. Stevenson and the Idea of Recollection 157 8 From the Vignette to the Rectangular: Bergson, Turner, and Remembrance 192 Afterthoughts: Nostalgia and Recollection 209 Index 213 vii List of Plates 1. Richard Redgrave, The Emigrants' Last Sight of Home, 1858, Tate Gallery, London/ Art Resource, NY 2. Frank Newbould, Your Britain - Fight for it Now, the South Downs, Imperial War Museum, London 3. Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England, 1855, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 4. Ford Madox Brown, Cartoon for The Last of England, 1852, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 5. Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Apollo and Daphne, National Gallery, London 6. Helen Allingham, Old Cottage at Pinner, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 7. Robert Louis Stevenson, Game of Dibbs, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University 8. Robert Louis Stevenson, untitled, from an 1863 letter to his parents, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University 9. Robert Louis Stevenson, Sudden and Awful Catastrophe. Disappearance of Snooks, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University 10. Robert Louis Stevenson, Defeat of Napoleon on the afternoon of the 17th, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University 11. William Raymond Smith after J. M. W Turner, Long-Ships Lighthouse, Land's End from Picturesque Views in England and Wales, 1827-38, etching, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 12. William Raymond Smith after J. M. W Turner, Long-Ships Lighthouse, Land's End from Picturesque Views in England and Wales, 1827-38, etching engraver's proof (a), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 13. J.M.W Turner, Shield's Lighthouse from the so-called Sequels to the Liber Studiorum, engraver's proof (b), mezzotint, Yale Center for British Art 14. John Ruskin, Turner's Earliest 'Nottingham' from Modern Painters, IV viii List of Plates ix 15. John Ruskin, Turner's Latest 'Nottingham' from Modern Painters, IV 16. John Horsburgh after J.M. W Turner, Bell Rock Lighthouse from Stevenson's Account of the Bell Rock Lighthouses 1824, etching and engraving, first published state, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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