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Kingstone, Helen.

Victorian narratives of the recent pastmemory, history, fiction /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Victorian narratives of the recent pastby Helen Kingstone.
Reminder of title:	memory, history, fiction /
Author:	Kingstone, Helen.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	x, 244 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.19th century
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49550-7
ISBN:	9783319495507$q(electronic bk.)

Victorian narratives of the recent pastmemory, history, fiction /
Kingstone, Helen.

Victorian narratives of the recent pastmemory, history, fiction /[electronic resource] :by Helen Kingstone. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - x, 244 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture..

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 Bronte, 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.

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 Bronte, 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.

ISBN: 9783319495507$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-49550-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

178123
English fiction
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR461 / .K56 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9008

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