| 书目名称 | Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past | | 副标题 | Memory, History, Fic | | 编辑 | Helen Kingstone | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Demonstrates how Victorian historians tended to avoid writing about their own era, and shows how those rare historians who did write contemporary history anxiously defended themselves against criticis | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the nineteenth century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the professionalization of the historical discipline, and even the growth of social history, all heightened the stakes. This book brings together Victorian histories and novels to show how these parallel genres responded to the challenges of contemporary history writing in divergent ways. Many historians shrank from engaging with controversial recent events. This study showcases the work of those rare historians who defied convention, including the polymath Harriet Martineau, English nationalist J. R. Green, and liberal enthusiast Spencer Walpole. A striking number of popular Victorian novels are retrospective. This book argues that Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot’s “novels of the recent past” are long overdue recognition as genuinely historical novels. By focusing on provincial communities, these novelists reveal undercurrents invisible to national narratives, and intervene in debates about women’s contribution to history.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | History; Historiography; Eliot; Dickens; Walpole; Martineau | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49550-7 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-84186-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-49550-7Series ISSN 2634-6494 Series E-ISSN 2634-6508 | | issn_series | 2634-6494 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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