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Deceitful Journals in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Authors

VALOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Silesian Studies In English 2021. Proceedings of the 6th international conference of English and American studies, 9th-10th September 2021
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://www.slu.cz/fpf/cz/file/cul/9d1c702c-6008-4b5e-9b4c-1af05444d292
Keywords neo-Victorian literature; journals; A.S. Byatt; Peter Ackroyd
Description This paper looks at journals as a source of information and misinformation in two neo-Victorian novels, Possession by A. S. Byatt and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd. Both books rely on textual evidence which is used to uncover past secrets, satisfy the need for knowledge and manipulate the audience. The paper explores the term romances of the archive and its key characteristics and then moves on to a closer examination of journals and their use in the selected works. Special attention is placed on the meaningful omissions and silences that the diary medium portrays and the reasons behind their often deceitful contents.
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