Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past : Memory, History, Fiction / by Helen Kingstone.
Kingstone, Helen, author.; École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
2017
PN760.5-PN769
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Title Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past : Memory, History, Fiction / by Helen Kingstone.
Author Kingstone, Helen, author.
ISBN 331949550X
9783319495507
9783319495491
3319495496
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49550-7
Published Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 244 pages 2 illustrations)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-49550-7 doi
Call Number PN760.5-PN769
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.034
Summary This book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the nineteenth century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the professionalization of the historical discipline, and even the growth of social history, all heightened the stakes. This book brings together Victorian histories and novels to show how these parallel genres responded to the challenges of contemporary history writing in divergent ways. Many historians shrank from engaging with controversial recent events. This study showcases the work of those rare historians who defied convention, including the polymath Harriet Martineau, English nationalist J.R. Green, and liberal enthusiast Spencer Walpole. A striking number of popular Victorian novels are retrospective. This book argues that Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot's "novels of the recent past" are long overdue recognition as genuinely historical novels. By focusing on provincial communities, these novelists reveal undercurrents invisible to national narratives, and intervene in debates about women's contribution to history.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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Introduction: Who's afraid of contemporary history?.- Part I: A conceptual framework
Chapter 2. History as a temporal continuum: from Walter Scott to William Stubbs
Chapter 3. The social continuum: history without heroes from William Hazlitt to J.R. Seeley
Chapter 4. Gendered Genres: professional history vs. antiquarianism and the historical novel.- Part II: Victorian historians and the recent past: Harriet Martineau, J.R. Green, Spencer Walpole and Charlotte M. Yonge
Chapter 5. Immersion and overview in histories without hindsight
Chapter 6. Power to the people? Proto-social history.- Part III: Victorian novelists and the recent past: Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot
Chapter 7. In defence of living memory: "sixty years since" or less
Chapter 8. "Unhistoric" individuals in the provincial novel
Conclusions.-

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