Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America

by Ben Carver

This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios--referred to here as "alternate histories"--proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137573333
• ISBN13: 9781137573339
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"