The Victorian Mirror of History - A.D. Culler

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It was a pervasive belief among Victorian writers that their era was transitional in character, that they were moving from an outworn past into an unknown future and therefore needed to look to history for guidance. History was a mirror reflecting the present. On the basis of analogies and contrasts with earlier ages and cultures, the great Victorians tried to gain a sense of their own place in the continuum. In this insightful and elegantly written book, A. Dwight culler explores the Victorians' uses of history, surveying the major authors and the intellectual and cultural currents of the era.

Culler begins with an introductory chapter on the Augustan Age, which was the immediately preceding example of the use of history as a mirror to reflect the present. He then charts the rise of the new attitude toward history in Scott and Macaulay and traces its use by individuals and groups who were concerned either with a particular phase of the past or with a current problem in relation to the past. Among those treated are Carlyle, Mill, and the Saint-Simonians, Thomas Arnold and the Liberal Anglican historians, Newman and the anti-Tractarians, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin and the Victorian medievalists, Browning, the Pre-Raphaelites, Pater, and others preoccupied with the idea of a "Victorian Renaissance." Throughout, Culler vividly demonstrates that the Victorian debates about science, religion, art, and culture always had a historical dimension, always were concerned with the relation of the present to the past.

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Auteur

: A. Dwight Culler

Artikelnummer 

: BF8500 L

Categorie(ën)

: Geschiedenis / Engelstalige boeken

Taal

: Engels

ISBN

: 0300034520 / 9780300034523

Uitgever

: Yale University Press

Druk

: 1

Jaar

: 1985

Pagina's

: 320

Bindwijze

: Hardcover, met stofomslag

Afmetingen

: 16 x 24 x 3 cm.

Conditie

: Goed; de rug van de omslag is verkleurd van bruin naar geel

Verzending

: Pakketpost

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