The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

The first section of David Mitchell’s genre-bending novel, Cloud Atlas (2004), purports to be set in 1850. Narrative clues approximately date the intra-diegetic diary object of this chapter to the period 1851–1910. This article argues for the construction of a stylistic historical imaginary of this...

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Published in:C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
Main Author: Martin Paul Eve
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-10-01
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Online Access:https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/557/