The Victorian Mirror Of History
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The Victorian Mirror Of History
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Author : Arthur Dwight Culler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Victorian Mirror Of History written by Arthur Dwight Culler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
It was a pervasive belief among Victorian writers that their era was transitional in character, that they were moving from an outworn past into an unknown future and therefore needed to look to history for guidance. History was a mirror reflecting the present. On the basis of analogies and contrasts with earlier ages and cultures, the great Victorians tried to gain a sense of their own place in the continuum. In this insightful and elegantly written book, A. Dwight culler explores the Victorians' uses of history, surveying the major authors and the intellectual and cultural currents of the era. Culler begins with an introductory chapter on the Augustan Age, which was the immediately preceding example of the use of history as a mirror to reflect the present. He then charts the rise of the new attitude toward history in Scott and Macaulay and traces its use by individuals and groups who were concerned either with a particular phase of the past or with a current problem in relation to the past. Among those treated are Carlyle, Mill, and the Saint-Simonians, Thomas Arnold and the Liberal Anglican historians, Newman and the anti-Tractarians, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin and the Victorian medievalists, Browning, the Pre-Raphaelites, Pater, and others preoccupied with the idea of a "Victorian Renaissance." Throughout, Culler vividly demonstrates that the Victorian debates about science, religion, art, and culture always had a historical dimension, always were concerned with the relation of the present to the past.
The Mirror
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Author : Sabine Melchior-Bonnet
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
The Mirror written by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Mirrors categories.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Victorians In The Rearview Mirror
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Author : Simon Joyce
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2007
The Victorians In The Rearview Mirror written by Simon Joyce and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Authors, English categories.
Simon Joyce examines heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the "neo-Dickensian" novel to offer a more affirmative assessment of the Victorian legacy, one that lets us imagine a model of social interconnection and interdependence that has come under threat in today's politics and culture.
The Mirror
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Author : Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
The Mirror written by Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with History categories.
This engaging and witty cultural history traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon ourselves, bestowing a power both fascinating and terrifying.
Gender Genre And Victorian Historical Writing
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Author : Rohan Amanda Maitzen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Gender Genre And Victorian Historical Writing written by Rohan Amanda Maitzen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1999. and Middlemarch and of a range of nineteenth-century historical works, including works by and about women that are discussed extensively here for the first time. The blurring of boundaries between historical and fictional narratives, stimulated by the enormous success of Walter Scott's novels, and the development of social history are shown to have been key factors in an uneven, controversial, but persistent feminization of history, the first because of the longstanding association of novels with women the second because social history focuses on the private sphere, traditionally women's domain. Along with the appearance of numerous historical texts written by women and taking women as their subjects, these developments challenged conventional beliefs about historical authority and relevance that had long relegated women to the margins, both literally and metaphorically. In its exploration of these changes and their implications, Gender and Victorian Historical Writing revises standard assumptions about Victorian ideas of history, finding an awareness of and experimentation with gender and genre that prefigure theoretical and scholarly concerns in contemporary women's history.
The Science Of History In Victorian Britain
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Author : Ian Hesketh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-22
The Science Of History In Victorian Britain written by Ian Hesketh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-22 with History categories.
Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources – monographs, lectures, correspondence – from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
Neo Victorian Fiction And Historical Narrative
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Author : L. Hadley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-10-13
Neo Victorian Fiction And Historical Narrative written by L. Hadley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.
The Victorian Period
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Author : Robin Gilmour
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-19
The Victorian Period written by Robin Gilmour and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with History categories.
This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated Victorian literature. The author begins by establishing the social and institutional framework in which intellectual and cultural life developed. Special attention is paid to the reform agenda of new groups which challenged traditional society, and this perspective informs Gilmour's discussion throughout the book. He assesses Victorian religion, science and politics in their own terms and in relation to the larger cultural politics of the middle-class challenge to traditionalism. Familiar topics, such as the Oxford Movement and Darwinism, are seen afresh, and those once neglected areas which are now increasingly important to modern scholars are brought into clear focus, such as Victorian agnosticism, the politics of gender, 'Englishness', and photography. The most innovative feature of this compelling study is the prominence given to the contemporary preoccupation with time. The Victorians' time-hauntedness emerges as the defining feature of their civilisation - the remote time of geology and evolution, the public time of history, the private time of autobiography.
The Ancient World On The Victorian And Edwardian Stage
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Author : J. Richards
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-10-09
The Ancient World On The Victorian And Edwardian Stage written by J. Richards and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-09 with Performing Arts categories.
The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.
Writing Women S History Since The Renaissance
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Author : Mary Spongberg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-08
Writing Women S History Since The Renaissance written by Mary Spongberg and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-08 with History categories.
The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times. This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genre of history. Mary Spongberg brings together for the first time an extensive survey of the progress of women's historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating the continuities between women's historical writings in the past and the development of a distinctly woman-centred historiography. Writing Women's History since the Renaissance also examines the relationship between women's history and the development of feminist consciousness, suggesting that the study of history has alerted women to their unequal status and enabled them to use history to achieve women's rights. Whether feminist or anti-feminist, women who have had their historical writings published have served as role models for women seeking a voice in the public sphere and have been instrumental in encouraging the growth of a feminist discourse.