The Clothing of Clio: A Study of the Representation of History in Ninetennth-Century Britain and France

by Stephen Bann

Book Overview

Originally published in 1984, The Clothing of Clio is concerned with the wide variety of ways in which the past was represented in Britain and France in the nineteenth century. This was a period of unprecedented historical-mindedness, in which novelists, poets, painters, collectors, as well as historians, took the past as their subject matter. Dr Bann argues that the concrete vision of the past should be studied across the whole field of representation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521180880
• ISBN13: 9780521180887
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"