Kingstone, Helen
Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past
1. Introduction: Who’s Afraid of Contemporary History?
Helen Kingstone
Part I. A Conceptual Framework
2. History as a Temporal Continuum: From Walter Scott to William Stubbs
Helen Kingstone
3. The Social Continuum: History without Heroes from William Hazlitt to J. R. Seeley
Helen Kingstone
4. Gendered Genres: Professional History Versus Antiquarianism and the Historical Novel
Helen Kingstone
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
Helen Kingstone
6. Power to the People? Proto-Social History
Helen Kingstone
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
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8. “Unhistoric” Individuals in the Provincial Novel
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9. Conclusions
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Avainsanat: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, Intellectual Studies
- Tekijä(t)
- Kingstone, Helen
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2017
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sarja
- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
- Sivumäärä
- 11 sivua
- Kategoria
- Kirjallisuudentutkimus
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319495507
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-3-319-49549-1