Ends of History - Victorians and 'The Woman Question'

Why were the Victorians so passionate about "History"?

How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession - the "woman question"? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians' fascination with "history" and with the nature of "women."

Discussing both key novels and non-literary texts - Daniel Deronda and Hegel's Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macaulay's History of England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collins' The Frozen Deep, and Mayhew's survey of "labour and the poor"; Villette, Patrick Fairburn's The Typology of Scripture and Ruskin's Modern Painters - she argues that the construction of middle-class Victorian "man" as the universal subject of history entailed the identification of "women" as those who are before, beyond, above, or below history. Crosby's analysis raises a crucial question for today's feminists - how can one read historically without replicating the problem of nineteenth century "history"?

The book was first published in 1991.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. George Eliot’s Apocalypse of History 2. Henry Esmond and the Subject of History 3. History and the Melodramatic Fix 4. Villette and the End of History 5. Conclusion: The High Cost of History

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Crosby, Christina

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christina Crosby, Christina (Wesleyan University Crosby, Crosby Christina
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 04.07.2014
• EAN: 9781138008038
• ISBN: 978-1-138-00803-8
• Seiten: 200
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Neuzeit bis 1918; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; English, History: theory & methods, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Historiography, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, History: theory and methods