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
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3. The Social Continuum: History without Heroes from William Hazlitt to J. R. Seeley
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4. Gendered Genres: Professional History Versus Antiquarianism and the Historical Novel
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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
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6. Power to the People? Proto-Social History
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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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Nyckelord: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, Intellectual Studies
- Författare
- Kingstone, Helen
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2017
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Serie
- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
- Sidantal
- 11 sidor
- Kategori
- Litteraturforskning
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319495507
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-3-319-49549-1