Time Travelers - Victorian Encounters With Time and History

"Time Travelers is a book about the different and complex ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid new picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions. Although the nineteenth century was not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of the Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of lasting importance. It gave rise, for example, to many of our modern disciplines, and the accessibility of these new pasts to ever broader social groups gave them unprecedented power to shape culture in ways that continue to structure our own engagements with the past"--

About the author

Adelene Buckland is a senior lecturer in English literature at King's College London. She is author of Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900. Sadiah Qureshi is a senior lecturer in modern history at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

• Authors: Adelene Qureshi Buckland
• Assisted by: Adelene Buckland (Editor), Buckland Adelene (Editor), Sadiah Qureshi (Editor), Qureshi Sadiah (Editor), Beard Mary (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780226676791
• ISBN: 978-0-226-67679-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, Historiography, History of Science, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 1837–1901 (Victorian period)