Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890

ISBN-13: 9780521898591 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 272 str.

Mike Goode

Opis

Challenges the received account of the way in which modern historical thought developed in the nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'With its large and entertaining variety of sources, its fine historicized readings, and its convincing argument, Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History achieves its aims.' James Najarian, Studies in Romanticism

Spis treści

1. The feeling of history; 2. Edmund Burke and the erotics of Romantic historicism; 3. Reflections in the print shop windows: caricaturing and contesting historical sense in the Revolution controversy; 4. Morbid antiquaries and vital men of feeling: the gender of history in the Waverley novels; 5. Boredom and the excitements of history: settling interests, nerves, and narratives in Rob Roy and Northanger Abbey; 6. Uneven manliness and the separate spheres of Victorian history; Coda. Living history, reenacting, and the period rush.