Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction

By Helen Kingstone

Book Overview

Introduction: Who's afraid of contemporary history?.- Part I: A conceptual framework.- Chapter 2. History as a temporal continuum: from Walter Scott to William Stubbs.- Chapter 3. The social continuum: history without heroes from William Hazlitt to J. R. Seeley.- Chapter 4. Gendered Genres: professional history vs. antiquarianism and the historical novel.- Part II: Victorian historians and the recent past: Harriet Martineau, J. R. Green, Spencer Walpole and Charlotte M. Yonge.- Chapter 5. Immersion and overview in histories without hindsight.- Chapter 6. Power to the people? Proto-social history.- Part III: Victorian novelists and the recent past: Walter Scott, Charlotte Bront?, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot.- Chapter 7. In defence of living memory: "sixty years since" or less.- Chapter 8. "Unhistoric" individuals in the provincial novel.- Conclusions.-

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319495496
• ISBN13: 9783319495491
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"