Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain

ISBN-13: 9781108814164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 279 str.

Mark Bevir

Opis

This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire. Arguing that Victorians understood life and society as developing historically in a way that made history central to public culture, it will appeal to those interested in Victorian Britain, historiography, and intellectual history.

Recenzje

'Bevir's aim for the book is an important and a timely one. … Bevir and the individual essayists are to be thanked for having brought the several strands of nineteenth-century British historicism into relationship with the wider debates they did so much to reconfigure.' Joshua Bennett, The English Historical Review

Spis treści

List of contributors; 1. Historicism and the human sciences in Victorian Britain Mark Bevir; 2. Life Bernard Lightman; 3. Race Efram Sera-Shriar; 4. Language Marcus Tomalin; 5. Literature Ian Duncan; 6. Moral character Lauren Goodlad; 7. History Brian Young; 8. Political economy Fredrik Albritton Jonsson; 9. Empire Duncan Bell; 10. International law Jennifer Pitts.