Mike Goode

Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781107694255
• ISBN-10: 1107694256
• Artikelnr.: 40303791

Autorenporträt

Mike Goode is Assistant Professor in the English Department, Syracuse University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.