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George Eliot and Victorian Historiography
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Imagining the National Past
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Artikel-Nr:
9780333749326
Veröffentl:
2000
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.07.2000
Seiten:
203
Autor:
Neil Mccaw
Gewicht:
417 g
Format:
216x140x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Neil McCaw is Lecturer in English Studies, School of Cultural Studies, King Alfred's College.
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.
First full-length study of Eliot and Victorian historiography
Acknowledgements Introduction: 'Those Far-Reaching Visions of the Past' George Eliot and the (Meta)Narrativity of History Imagining the National Past A Natural History of English Life A Carlylean Counter-Paradigm Theodicy and History Imagining the National Present Unwritten Landscapes: Imagining the National Future Conclusion: Beyond Victorian Historiography Bibliography Index