Picturing the Past English History in Text and Image, 1830-1870

Name: Picturing the Past English History in Text and Image, 1830-1870
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ISBN: 9780198208440

ISBN-10: 0198208448

ISBN-13: 9780198208440

Edition: 2000

Authors: Rosemary Mitchell

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This monograph is a wide-ranging and sophisticated analysis of representations in text and image of the English past between 1830 and 1870. It consists of a series of inter-related case-studies of illustrated history books, ranging from editions of David Humes History of England to W. H. Ainsworths The Tower of London (1840). It contributes to present debates on nationalism, highlighting the complex and variable nature of cultural constructions of identity. Simultaneously, if offers an overall interpretation of historiographical change in early and mid-Victorian Britain, focusing in particular on the transition from picturesque reconstructions of the English past to the scientific…

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List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/14/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 326
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction: Picturing the English Past in Nineteenth-Century


Britain: Historical Consciousness and National Identity


Publishing the Past: Text and Image, Author, Illustrator and Publisher


The History of The History of England: The Evolution of a Standard Text and its Illustrations


True Stories and Solid Facts: The Evolution of the English History Textbook


The Picturesque Face of the Past: The 1840s Novels of William Harrison Ainsworth


'A United People': Charles Knight and the Making of a Picturesque History of England


Separate Spheres and Early Women's History


John Lingard's History of England: A Catholic History


Thackeray, A'Beckett, and Leech: 'The Dignity of History'


The Abuse of Antiquity and the Uses of Myth: The Illustrated Historical Novel after 1850


Experiments with History: The Later Novels of W. H. Ainsworth and their Illustrations and the Decline of the Picturesque Historical Novel


Conclusion