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- Author: Christina Crosby
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN-10: 1138008036
- ISBN-13: 9781138008038
- Format: 15.2 x 22.6 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Why were the Victorians so passionate about History?
How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession - the woman question? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians' fascination with history and with the nature of women.
Discussing both key novels and non-literary texts - Daniel Deronda and Hegel's Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macaulay's History of England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collins' The Frozen Deep, and Mayhew's survey of labour and the poor; Villette, Patrick Fairburn's The Typology of Scripture and Ruskin's Modern Painters - she argues that the construction of middle-class Victorian man as the universal subject of history entailed the identification of women as those who are before, beyond, above, or below history. Crosby's analysis raises a crucial question for today's feminists - how can one read historically without replicating the problem of nineteenth century history?
The book was first published in 1991.
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- Author: Christina Crosby
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN-10: 1138008036
- ISBN-13: 9781138008038
- Format: 15.2 x 22.6 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Why were the Victorians so passionate about History?
How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession - the woman question? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians' fascination with history and with the nature of women.
Discussing both key novels and non-literary texts - Daniel Deronda and Hegel's Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macaulay's History of England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collins' The Frozen Deep, and Mayhew's survey of labour and the poor; Villette, Patrick Fairburn's The Typology of Scripture and Ruskin's Modern Painters - she argues that the construction of middle-class Victorian man as the universal subject of history entailed the identification of women as those who are before, beyond, above, or below history. Crosby's analysis raises a crucial question for today's feminists - how can one read historically without replicating the problem of nineteenth century history?
The book was first published in 1991.
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