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  title info:
    title: Victorian narratives of the recent past
    sub title: memory, history, fiction
  name:
    name part: Kingstone, Helen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the nineteenth century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the professionalization of the historical discipline, and even the growth of social history, all heightened the stakes. This book brings together Victorian histories and novels to show how these parallel genres responded to the challenges of contemporary history writing in divergent ways. Many historians shrank from engaging with controversial recent events. This study showcases the work of those rare historians who defied convention, including the polymath Harriet Martineau, English nationalist J. R. Green, and liberal enthusiast Spencer Walpole. A striking number of popular Victorian novels are retrospective. This book argues that Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot's "novels of the recent past" are long overdue recognition as genuinely historical novels. By focusing on provincial communities, these novelists reveal undercurrents invisible to national narratives, and intervene in debates about women's contribution to history.
  table of contents: Introduction: who's afraid of contemporary history? -- Part I. A contemporary framework -- History as a temporal continuum: from Walter Scott to William Stubbs -- The social continuum: history without heroes from William Hazlitt to J. R. Seeley -- Gendered genres: professional history versus antiquarianism and the historical novel -- Part II. Victorian historians and the recent past: Harriet Martineau, J. R. Green, Spencer Walpole, and Charlotte M. Yonge -- Immersion and overview in histories without hindsight -- Power to the people? Proto-social history -- Part III. Victorian novelists and the recent past: Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot -- In defence of living memory: "sixty years since" or less -- "Unhistoric" individuals in the provincial novel -- Conclusions.
  note: Helen Kingstone.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Novelists, English
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: History in literature
  classification: PN50 .K56 2017
  classification: 809/.93358
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
  identifier: 3319495496
  identifier: 9783319495491
  identifier: 9783319495507
  identifier: 2017932395
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 161026
    record change date: 20170926115958.0
    record identifier: in00003852936