Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890

Mike Goode

ISBN 10: 0521898595 / ISBN 13: 9780521898591

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Mike Goode challenges received accounts of the development of modern historical thought, arguing that, in Romantic and Victorian Britain, struggles over historical authority were as much disputes over the nature of proper masculinity as they were contests over ideas and interpretations. Drawing on primary materials from such diverse fields as political economy, moral philosophy, medicine, antiquarian study, and visual satire, Goode uncovers a Romantic historical tradition - one most influentially realized by historical novels - which held that historians must be manly and sentimental in order to understand history properly. Goode further shows how and why, by later in the nineteenth century, the bodies and feelings - but not the gender - of historians came to be regarded as irrelevant to their scholarly projects. The result is an unconventional account of the rise of history, one that focuses more on novelists, political philosophers, and caricaturists than on historians.

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• Titre: Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521898595
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521898591
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 157 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 157 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 549 grammes

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Synopsis

Mike Goode challenges received accounts of the development of modern historical thought, arguing that, in Romantic and Victorian Britain, struggles over historical authority were as much disputes over the nature of proper masculinity as they were contests over ideas and interpretations. Drawing on primary materials from such diverse fields as political economy, moral philosophy, medicine, antiquarian study, and visual satire, Goode uncovers a Romantic historical tradition - one most influentially realized by historical novels - which held that historians must be manly and sentimental in order to understand history properly. Goode further shows how and why, by later in the nineteenth century, the bodies and feelings - but not the gender - of historians came to be regarded as irrelevant to their scholarly projects. The result is an unconventional account of the rise of history, one that focuses more on novelists, political philosophers, and caricaturists than on historians.

À propos de l?auteur

Mike Goode is Assistant Professor in the English Department, Syracuse University.