Alternate histories and nineteenth-century literature : untimely meditations in Britain, France, and America /: untimely meditations in Britain, France, and America. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ben Carver.
• Authors: Carver, Ben
• Contents: "Preface and Acknowledgements"; "Contents"; "Abbreviations"; "List of Figures"; "Chapter 1 Introduction: The Castle of If"; "Chapter 2 Napoleonic Imaginaries"; "Other Napoleons"; "Phantasms and Hoaxes"; "Historic Doubts: A Sceptical Alternative"; "Napoléon Apocryphe: This Immense Reality"; "History's Slave: Tolstoy's Condemnation"; "Chapter 3 Inheriting Antiquity: Political Genealogy in Disraeli and Renouvier"; "The Perfect Story of Mankind"; "Romantic Politics and Style"; "Romance and History" "Uchronie: Liberty and History in Renouvier"; "Inheritance and Evolution"; "Chapter 4 Nebulous History and the Plurality of Worlds"; "Beyond the Visible"; "Theological Limits: What Is Man, that Thou Art Mindful of Him?"; "History and Nebulae"; "Instruments of Perception"; "Hale's and Flammarion';s Alternate-Historical Beings"; "Blanqui, Nietzsche, and the Materialism of History"; "Chapter 5 Lost Worlds and the (Un)Natural History of Gender"; "Replaying Life's Tape: The Alternate History of Nature"; "The Island Paradigm as Rule and Exception" "Lost Worlds and the Recovery of Masculinity"; "Recovering the Female (Selector)"; "Eugenics and Education in Mizora"; "Women, Evolution, and Economics"; "Her land For Him"; "Chapter 6 Earliness and Lateness: Alternate History in American Literature"; "Anchor 2"; "Aristopia: Renewing the Republic"; "Perennial Rebirth: New and Old Frontiers"; "Transatlantic Correspondence"; "A Connecticut Yankee: Twain's Historical Romance"; "Time Travel and Philology"; "Multiple Worlds"; "Chapter 7 Conclusion: Infinite Worlds"; "Bibliography"
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.9008; Literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Alternative histories (Fiction) -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- 19th century; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Alternative histories (Fiction); English literature; Literature and history; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137573346; 1137573341
• Related ISBNs: 9781137573339; 1137573333
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 25, 2017).
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