Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Memory, History, Fiction Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Series
Helen Kingstone is Lecturer in Victorian Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research addresses the relationship between memory and history in the nineteenth century, focusing on how writers in different genres and forms approached contemporary history. Other publications include a chapter in Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris, ed. Emelyne Godfrey (Palgrave, 2016), and work on scientific ideas of progress in Nineteenth-Century Contexts and in Historicising Humans ed. Efram Sera-Shriar (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018).
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 criticism from both peers and successors
Shows how a group of mid-century novelists used retrospective provincial novels to give voice to apparently ‘unhistoric’ individuals, and to challenge views both of national progress and decline
Identifies two key dimensions to the challenge of contemporary-history-writing: the temporal and the social
Date de parution : 04-2017
Ouvrage de 244 p.
14.8x21 cm
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Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 07-2018
Ouvrage de 244 p.
14.8x21 cm