Titlebook: George Eliot and Victorian Historiography; Imagining the Nation Neil McCaw Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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Imagining the National Present,ctively engaging with history in order to shape their own destinies, and also as the chief signifier of the absence of a coherent historical process. History unfolds, it would appear, without meaning or particular direction; at least if there is an inherent direction, then it is beyond human percept

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Markus Müllner,Caroline Müllnerctively engaging with history in order to shape their own destinies, and also as the chief signifier of the absence of a coherent historical process. History unfolds, it would appear, without meaning or particular direction; at least if there is an inherent direction, then it is beyond human percept

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,Introduction: ‘Those Far-Reaching Visions of the Past’,ween history and national identity. The past is identified as foreign Other in relation to the metaphorical and dominant nation of the historical present. This notion of the past as foreign Other identifies the ability to write history, to narrate the group experience, as ideologically crucial. For,

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George Eliot and the (Meta)Narrativity of History,izing conception of the past. As she acknowledged, historical recreation requires ‘the working out in detail of the various steps by which a political or social change was reached, using all extant evidence and supplying deficiencies . . [my italics]’.. That is, by configuring a parallel and complem

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Imagining the National Past,gland as a historical nation. Crucially, this evolution will be seen to be informed by a pervasive English nationalism derived from a dominant trend of British historiography, namely the so-called Whig Interpretation of History. In the first of these chapters the qualified presence of Whiggish perce

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A Carlylean Counter-Paradigm, George Eliot’s fiction is disturbed by a contradictory, disputatious voice. This voice problematizes the smoothness of the narrative, particularly in its rejection of Whiggish optimism and self-congratulatory present-centredness. The fissures in the realization of the Whig Interpretation arise out

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Theodicy and History,ness embodied in her work. And, although the ‘symbolic realism’. of Carlyle (as Chris Brooks has called it) and George Eliot’s particular historical imagining differ as far as their philosophical-religious foundation is concerned, they also overlap in the way that historical process is realized. The

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Imagining the National Present,ot was showing distinct signs of just such a scepticism towards grand, all-encompassing philosophies. Moreover, whereas such philosophizing was problematized in the earlier fictions through an oscillation between perceptions of coherence and incoherence, at this later stage fracture and fragmentatio