Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, by Helen Kingstone

By Helen Kingstone

This booklet explains why narrating the new previous is usually difficult, and exhibits the way it used to be quite fraught within the 19th century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the professionalization of the old self-discipline, or even the expansion of social historical past, all heightened the stakes. This publication brings jointly Victorian histories and novels to teach how those parallel genres answered to the demanding situations of latest background writing in divergent methods. Many historians shrank from attractive with arguable contemporary occasions. This examine showcases the paintings of these infrequent historians who defied conference, together with the polymath Harriet Martineau, English nationalist J. R. eco-friendly, and liberal fanatic Spencer Walpole. A extraordinary variety of renowned Victorian novels are retrospective. This e-book argues that Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot’s “novels of the new earlier” are lengthy past due acceptance as really old novels. by way of concentrating on provincial groups, those novelists display undercurrents invisible to nationwide narratives, and intrude in debates approximately women’s contribution to history.

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