Rosemary Mitchell

Picturing the Past

English History in Text and Image, 1830-1870

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The tendency to analyse text and image, fiction and non-fiction, popular and elite publications in isolation from each other is challenged in the interests of a more complex and nuanced portrait of the middle-class Victorian historical consciousness.

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Through a series of interrelated case-studies of nineteenth-century history books, history textbooks, and historical novels, Rosemary Mitchell draws out the attitudes of Victorians toward their national past. She highlights how history--once a popular pastime--became the preserve of professionals and how both the text and images in popular and scholarly publications contributed to Victorian cultural identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780198208440
• ISBN-10: 0198208448
• Artikelnr.: 21965195

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Picturing the English Past in Nineteenth-Century
Britain: Historical Consciousness and National Identity
* Publishing the Past: Text and Image, Author, Illustrator and
Publisher
* The History of The History of England: The Evolution of a Standard
Text and its Illustrations
* True Stories and Solid Facts: The Evolution of the English History
Textbook
* The Picturesque Face of the Past: The 1840s Novels of William
Harrison Ainsworth
* 'A United People': Charles Knight and the Making of a Picturesque
History of England
* Separate Spheres and Early Women's History
* John Lingard's History of England: A Catholic History
* Thackeray, A'Beckett, and Leech: 'The Dignity of History'
* The Abuse of Antiquity and the Uses of Myth: The Illustrated
Historical Novel after 1850
* Experiments with History: The Later Novels of W. H. Ainsworth and
their Illustrations and the Decline of the Picturesque Historical
Novel
* Conclusion