LEADER 04617nam 22004695 450 001 9910255085003321 005 20251030102117.0 010 $a9781137573346 010 $a1137573341 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-57334-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000000882598 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-57334-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5107688 035 $a(Perlego)3502054 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000882598 100 $a20171017d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature $eUntimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America /$fby Ben Carver 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XVIII, 292 p. 12 illus.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,$x2634-6508 311 08$a9781137573339 311 08$a1137573333 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Latency and history -- Chapter 1. Napoleonic Imaginaries -- Chapter 2. Inheriting Antiquity: Political Invention in Disraeli and Renouvier -- Chapter 3. Nebulous History and the Plurality of Worlds -- Chapter 4. Lost Worlds and Alternate Histories of Gender -- Chapter 5. Earliness and Lateness: Renewing American Dreams and Nightmares -- Conclusion: Invisible Worlds. 330 $a?In a stimulating text rich with ?alternate facts?, Carver reminds us that history is also what failed to happen and that each historical present carries with it its fantasies of alternate realities. The counterfactual has become a banality today, but this stimulating history of plural virtualities demonstrates how poetic our prosaic 19th century was in fact, and how productively it confronted its own unrealized possibilities.? ? Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University, USA ?Ben Carver's lucid and insightful book reveals the spread of alternate-history speculation through a surprisingly wide range of nineteenth-century disciplines, genres, and national literatures. Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the century's historical imagination.? ? Catherine Gallagher, Eggers Professor of English Literature, Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, USA 'Ben Carver has produced a rich, wide-ranging and imaginative study of a neglected genre that has much to teach us about the nineteenth century and its characteristic modes of narrating the past, present and future. This is, in short, a valuable alternate history of Victorian historiography, as well as an original contribution to our understanding of the utopian imagination.' ? Matthew Beaumont, Professor of English Literature, University College London, UK style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px;">This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios?referred to here as ?alternate histories??proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogiesof western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that ?discovered? improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The ?untimely? imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,$x2634-6508 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 676 $a809.034 700 $aCarver$b Ben$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0988764 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255085003321 996 $aAlternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature$92260840 997 $aUNINA