Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture

This book is about a group of Victorian British writers and artists 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 lifetimes. It examines their particular experience of the nostalgic moment and provides an occasion to reexamine the idea of nostalgia and to reflect on the act of recollection.