Romantic Pasts

History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790–1850

AvPorscha Fermanis

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Working against the long-standing belief that romantic-era history is primarily sentimental, Romantic Pasts argues that historians from Mary Wollstonecraft to Thomas Carlyle developed a new kind of cognitive or psychological historicism that was as much concerned with motive as with affect. Recognising that feelings could be a viable object of historical study as well as a sentimental or affective mode, these historians increasingly reconfigured psycho-physiological and behavioural processes as situated and historically variable phenomena that could reflect changes in social and historical contexts. Weaving together literary criticism, the history of emotion, theories of the novel and philosophies of history, this book rethinks both the paradigms of resurrection and revivification that have come to stand for romantic history and that history's place within the development of modern history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:478 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474481892

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Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her most recent book is Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (ed. with Sarah Comyn, Manchester University Press, 2021). She is currently the principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded project ‘SouthHem’ and is completing a monograph entitled Southern Settler Fiction and the Transcolonial Imaginary, 1820-1890.

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Combining a sophisticated appreciation of the historiographic with nuanced literary analysis, Romantic Pasts is sensitive, insightful and wide-ranging. In its examination of writers from Burke and Wollstonecraft to Godwin, Scott, Macaulay and Carlyle, this book gives an important new perspective on the complex role of feeling in configuring the past.

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AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Romantic Histories of Feeling1. Historical Sentiment and Experience: Burke and Wollstonecraft2. Historical Subjects and Ethical Character: Godwin and Carlyle3. Historical Ethnogenesis and National Feeling: Scott, Moore, and Southey4. Historical Style and the Man of Letters: Macaulay and Carlyle5. Historical Reviewing: Specialisation and Periodical CultureEpilogue: A Romantic Return?BibliographyIndex