Titlebook: Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past; Memory, History, Fic Helen Kingstone Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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History as a Temporal Continuum: From Walter Scott to William Stubbslay are contrasted with William Stubbs’ and J. R. Seeley’s definitions of history as a scientific discipline modelled on Leopold von Ranke. The final section shows how histories by David Hume, Charles Dickens, and others all finish with the 1688 Glorious Revolution and avoid contemporary history.

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The Social Continuum: History without Heroes from William Hazlitt to J. R. Seeleyrope “the social body” was used to aggregate an expanding population. By the late-Victorian period, William Stubbs and J. R. Seeley had separated their professional discipline from the amateur pursuit of social history.

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Gendered Genres: Professional History Versus Antiquarianism and the Historical Novelviews characterized the genre as overly full of superficial detail. The same denigrating labels were applied to antiquaries, the amateur scholars of material culture. This chapter shows how heavily gendered were debates about the merits of different historical genres.

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Power to the People? Proto-Social Historype “the nation.” This atemporal concept sometimes encompasses everyone and sometimes only the middle classes. Ultimately, Victorian contemporary historians are shown as unable to represent the whole social spectrum.

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“Unhistoric” Individuals in the Provincial Novelive aristocrat, and to challenge the definition of a historical event. Eliot uses the influential character Dorothea Brooke to problematize her own notion of the “unhistoric” individual. These writers are more radical in gender than class terms, but they all successfully rewrite contemporary historiography.

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Conclusions,ed here were unable to solve. Although all of these historians and novelists sought to represent the whole social spectrum within narratives of the recent past, none fully achieved their promised revisionist focus on “unhistoric” individuals. Kingstone summarizes this monograph’s contribution to ong

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History as a Temporal Continuum: From Walter Scott to William Stubbstinuum. This is visible in writers as diverse as Walter Scott, Auguste Comte, Charles Lyell, Karl Marx, and John Ruskin. Kingstone argues that the nineteenth-century “death of religion” is better understood as a transfer of religious feeling to history. The second half contrasts early-Victorian flui

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The Social Continuum: History without Heroes from William Hazlitt to J. R. Seeleyon became particularly fraught for Victorian historians. Thomas Carlyle paradoxically championed hero-worship, but also emphasized the significance of invisible but representative masses. This chapter traces three different attempts to codify the relationship between the individual and history. Will