Panoramas and compilations in nineteenth-century Britain : seeing the big picture / / Helen Kingstone |
Autore | Kingstone Helen |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
Disciplina | 909 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization - History
Civilization |
ISBN |
9783031156847
9783031156830 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Overviews of the Present -- Part I: Panoramic Perspective -- 2. Contemporary History in Panoramas -- 3. Panoramic Perspective in Histories of the French Revolution: Thomas Carlyle Versus Archibald Alison -- 4. The Napoleonic Wars from Near and Far: Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major and The Dynasts -- Part II Transition: Between Panoramas and Compilations -- 5. Photography Remediated in the Crimean War: Illustration, Exhibition and Collection -- Part III: Big data: Compilations of Contemporaneity -- 6. An Index to the Scale of Modernity: Big Data and The Review of Reviews -- 7. Ephemeral Collective Biography: Men of the Time (1852–99) -- 8. Collective Biography as Monument? The Dictionary of National Biography -- 9. Conclusions: Overview Through Immersion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910640390703321 |
Kingstone Helen | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past : Memory, History, Fiction / / by Helen Kingstone |
Autore | Kingstone Helen |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 244 p. 2 illus.) |
Disciplina | 809.034 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—19th century
Literature—History and criticism Intellectual life—History Nineteenth-Century Literature Literary History Intellectual Studies |
ISBN | 3-319-49550-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Who’s afraid of contemporary history? -- Part I: A conceptual framework -- Chapter 2. History as a temporal continuum: from Walter Scott to William Stubbs -- Chapter 3. The social continuum: history without heroes from William Hazlitt to J. R. Seeley -- Chapter 4. Gendered Genres: professional history vs. antiquarianism and the historical novel -- Part II: Victorian historians and the recent past: Harriet Martineau, J. R. Green, Spencer Walpole and Charlotte M. Yonge -- Chapter 5. Immersion and overview in histories without hindsight -- Chapter 6. Power to the people? Proto-social history -- Part III: Victorian novelists and the recent past: Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot -- Chapter 7. In defence of living memory: “sixty years since” or less -- Chapter 8. “Unhistoric” individuals in the provincial novel -- Conclusions -- . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255065903321 |
Kingstone Helen | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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