George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past
In this new study of George Eliot's fiction, textual attempts to imagine a coherent and unified national past are seen as producing a contradictory vision of Englishness. It is a historiographical national identity, constructed in the image of predominant, and conflicting, trends in the Victorian writing of history. The inherent uncertainty caused by the shift between different perceptions of English history leads, in the later fiction, to an abandonment of contemporaneous grand narratives. The consequence is a history that anticipates a more modern, radical philosophy of history.
1120618228
George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past
In this new study of George Eliot's fiction, textual attempts to imagine a coherent and unified national past are seen as producing a contradictory vision of Englishness. It is a historiographical national identity, constructed in the image of predominant, and conflicting, trends in the Victorian writing of history. The inherent uncertainty caused by the shift between different perceptions of English history leads, in the later fiction, to an abandonment of contemporaneous grand narratives. The consequence is a history that anticipates a more modern, radical philosophy of history.
185.0
Out Of Stock
5
1
George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past
203George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past
203Related collections and offers
185.0
Out Of Stock
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780333749326 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Publication date: | 07/25/2000 |
Edition description: | 2000 |
Pages: | 203 |
Product dimensions: | 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
From the B&N Reads Blog