Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture

This book is about a group of Victorian British writers and artists (Darwin, Stevenson, Gaskell, Ruskin, Pater, Brown and Turner) whose work emerges from recollection and whose texts embody the experience of nostalgia. The study concentrates on the longing for a past that traverses the span of these writers'' and artists'' own lifetime. It examines their particular experience of the nostalgic mome...