Table Of ContentNOSTALGIA 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
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Colley, Ann C.
Nostalgia and recollection in Victorian culture I Ann C. Colley.
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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.
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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
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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
