Chapter 1 Reading the Represented Past: History and Fiction from 1700 to the Present

Chapter 3 Temporal Systems in Representations of the Past: Distance, Freedom and Irony in Historical Fiction

Chapter 4 ‘All Histories Are Against You?’: Family History, Domestic History and the Feminine Past in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

Chapter 5 Rereading Hogarth and Pope: Authenticity and Academic Fictions of the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 6 Panoramic Byron: Reading, History and Pre-cinematic Spectacle

Chapter 7 ‘The Painted Record’ in George Eliot’s Historical Novel Romola

Chapter 8 Reading and Remembering History in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year

Chapter 9 The Gothic Reader: History, Fear and Trembling

Chapter 10 Notes Towards a Poethics of Spectrality: The Examples of Neo-Victorian Textuality

Chapter 11 Dickens and Ways of Seeing the French Revolution: A Tale of Two Cities

Chapter 12 The Uses of History: The Historical Novel in the Post-French Revolution Debate and Ellis Cornelia Knight’s Marcus Flaminius (1792)

Chapter 13 The Living Past and the Fellowship of Sacrificial Violence in William Morris’s A Dream of John Ball