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Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) by Helen Kingstone (auth.) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) about?
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 engag
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Helen Kingstone (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319495491
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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