Victorian narratives of the recent past : memory, history, fiction /: memory, history, fiction. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helen Kingstone.
• Authors: Kingstone, Helen
• Contents: Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Who's Afraid of Contemporary History?; Waves of Retrospection; Part I: What Is "the Recent Past"?; Parts II and III: Divergent Genres; Notes; Part I A Conceptual Framework; 2 History as a Temporal Continuum: From Walter Scott to William Stubbs; The Long Shadow of Romantic Historicism; "What Has Posterity Ever Done for Me?"; Carlyle and Macaulay to Stubbs and Seeley: Historians in the Academy; Where Does History End?; Notes 3 The Social Continuum: History without Heroes from William Hazlitt to J. R. Seeley"The Spirit of the Age"; The Social Body; Social History in Different Genres; Notes; 4 Gendered Genres: Professional History Versus Antiquarianism and the Historical Novel; The Historical Novel; Professional History at the End of the Century; Notes; Part II Victorian Historians and the Recent Past: Harriet Martineau, J. R. Green, Spencer Walpole, and Charlotte M. Yonge; 5 Immersion and Overview in Histories without Hindsight; Amateur Historians in a Professionalizing Age Martineau and Green: Gendered Capabilities"Oppressed by Details"; Stadialism Versus Consistency: Martineau, Green, and Walpole; Awkwardness or Consistency?; Notes; 6 Power to the People? Proto-Social History; Proto-Social History in Green and Walpole; Individual Agency? Martineau and Yonge; Unifying Popular Agency: "the Nation"; Notes; Part III Victorian Novelists and the Recent Past: Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot; 7 In Defence of Living Memory: "Sixty Years Since" or Less; Waverley as a Foundational Paradigm Shirley and "My Lady Ludlow": Nostalgia Subverted?Felix Holt and Middlemarch: Balancing Two Worlds; Notes; 8 "Unhistoric" Individuals in the Provincial Novel; Unemployment and the Unhistoric in Shirley; Reclaiming the Detail in "My Lady Ludlow"; Historic Value in Middlemarch and Beyond; Notes; 9 Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809; Literature; Literature and history; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century; English fiction; Literature and history; Novelists, English; Literary Criticism -- General; Science -- History; Literature: history & criticism; History of ideas; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319495507
• Related ISBNs: 331949550X; 9783319495491; 3319495496
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 24, 2017).
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