Housing the past: Victorian houses in neo - Victorian fiction

Q4 Arts and Humanities Crossroads Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.15290/cr.2022.36.1.01
B. Kucała
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As argued, among others, by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space (1958), a house which has been inhabited over a period of time becomes a composite of its physical structure and the mental space created by its residents’ thoughts, dreams and memories. This article analyses two contemporary novels in which houses as tangible manifestations of temporally remote experience provide a link to the Vic-torian past. Lauren Willig’s That Summer (2014) and Kate Beaufoy’s Another Heartbeat in the House (2015) represent the same type of neo-Victorian fiction: their plots are composed of two strands, one set in the modern age and the other in the nineteenth century, and in the course of each story parallels and conver-gences are revealed between the two ages and the two casts of characters. The article argues that both novels are also typical “romances of the archive” – as defined by Suzanne Keen (2001) − in which the ma-terial legacy of the past triggers a personally motivated inquiry, leading contemporary characters to un-cover certain bygone mysteries, and, crucially, to recognise the past’s continuing appeal and relevance.
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过去的住房:新维多利亚小说中的维多利亚式房屋
正如加斯顿·巴舍拉在《空间的诗学》(1958)中所论述的那样,一所居住了一段时间的房子变成了它的物理结构和由居住者的思想、梦想和记忆所创造的精神空间的综合体。本文分析了两部当代小说,其中房屋作为时间遥远经验的有形表现,提供了与维多利亚时代过去的联系。劳伦·威利的《那个夏天》(2014)和凯特·博福伊的《房子里的另一个心跳》(2015)代表了同一类型的新维多利亚小说:它们的情节由两条线组成,一条设定在现代,另一条设定在19世纪,在每个故事的过程中,两个时代和两种角色之间的平行和融合被揭示出来。这篇文章认为,这两部小说也是典型的“档案罗曼史”——苏珊娜·基恩(Suzanne Keen, 2001)的定义——在这些小说中,过去的物质遗产引发了一种个人动机的探究,引导当代人物揭开某些过去的谜团,最重要的是,认识到过去的持续吸引力和相关性。
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Crossroads Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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