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Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction - Couverture souple
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Synopsis
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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