Add to ORKGPersistent Pasts: Historical Palimpsests in Nineteenth-Century Prose traces Victorian historical discourse with specific attention to the works of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot and their relation to historicism in earlier works by Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg. I argue that the Victorian response to the tense relation between the materialist Enlightenment and the idealist rhetoric of Romanticism marks a decidedly ethical turn in Victorian historical discourse. The writers introduce the dialectic of enlightened empiricism and romantic idealism to invoke the historical imagination as an ethical response to the call of the past. I read the dialectic and its invitation to ethics through the figure of the palimpsest. Drawing upon theoretical...
Victorians in Britain believed, following the Romantics, that vision facilitated sympathy, or knowle...
Between the dawn of the nineteenth century and its close, Britain went from a predominantly rural na...
Narrative as Archive contributes to the small-but-growing body of scholarship on paratexts -- specif...
Persistent Pasts: Historical Palimpsests in Nineteenth-Century Prose traces Victorian historical dis...
How did British nineteenth-century literature articulate its relationship to the past? In Past and ...
How the Victorians Invented the Regency: Historicizing the Recent Past argues that Victorian literar...
The Victorian era of British literature spanned almost an entire century and saw writers from Carlyl...
(print) xii, 134 p. ; 23 cmIntroduction: historicisms : old, new, and discontented -- Chaos and Carl...
“Invisible Links, Abject Chains: Habit in Nineteenth-Century British Literature” argues that habit i...
This dissertation develops a new perspective on the relationship between literature and ethical disc...
This dissertation explores the emergence of radical conservatism as a form of disjunctive aesthetic ...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
The nineteenth century saw a number of ways in which amateurs and professional historians and noveli...
This paper joins the recent revaluation of the palimpsest as a key image for the writing of memory. ...
Victorians in Britain believed, following the Romantics, that vision facilitated sympathy, or knowle...
Between the dawn of the nineteenth century and its close, Britain went from a predominantly rural na...
Narrative as Archive contributes to the small-but-growing body of scholarship on paratexts -- specif...
Persistent Pasts: Historical Palimpsests in Nineteenth-Century Prose traces Victorian historical dis...
How did British nineteenth-century literature articulate its relationship to the past? In Past and ...
How the Victorians Invented the Regency: Historicizing the Recent Past argues that Victorian literar...
The Victorian era of British literature spanned almost an entire century and saw writers from Carlyl...
(print) xii, 134 p. ; 23 cmIntroduction: historicisms : old, new, and discontented -- Chaos and Carl...
“Invisible Links, Abject Chains: Habit in Nineteenth-Century British Literature” argues that habit i...
This dissertation develops a new perspective on the relationship between literature and ethical disc...
This dissertation explores the emergence of radical conservatism as a form of disjunctive aesthetic ...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
The importance of history to Victorian culture, and to nineteenth-century Europe more generally, is ...
The nineteenth century saw a number of ways in which amateurs and professional historians and noveli...
This paper joins the recent revaluation of the palimpsest as a key image for the writing of memory. ...
Victorians in Britain believed, following the Romantics, that vision facilitated sympathy, or knowle...
Between the dawn of the nineteenth century and its close, Britain went from a predominantly rural na...
Narrative as Archive contributes to the small-but-growing body of scholarship on paratexts -- specif...