RT Journal Article
T1 "Tell Us, Irma, Tell Us" : (Re)fashioning neo-Victorian memory in Joan Lindsay's "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1967)
A1 Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo
AB ABSTRACT: Neo-Victorian literature has drawn a great deal of attention in the past forty years due to its tantalizing ways of negotiating the interplay between history, memory, trauma and nostalgia. Even though Joan Lindsay’s "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1967) partakes in many of the issues that characterize neo-Victorian aesthetics, it has hardly been examined under the critical light of neo-Victorianism. The argument of the article assumes that the (re)presentation, scrutiny and (re)enactment of Victorian culture in the novel defies or at least transcends received readings of Victorian culture and engages in an active, yet permanent search for memory as fiction, the re-enactment of the past as a revealing dimension of the present and, last, but not least, a permanent negotiation with / of nostalgia as a creative and transformative force. The analysis will help interpret Lindsay’s novel as an archetypal neo-Victorian novel, arguably a foundational one.
PB Masaryk University Press
SN 0524-6881
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/113833
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/113833
LA eng
NO Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. «“Tell Us, Irma, Tell Us” : (Re)fashioning neo-Victorian memory in Joan Lindsay’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1967)». Brno Studies in English, vol. 47, n.º 1, 2021, pp. 255-73, https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2021-1-14.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 15 dic 2025