Victorian narratives of the recent past: memory, history, fiction
Auteur :
Kingstone, Helen
Éditeur :
Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN :
9783319841861
Date de publication :
20 juil. 2018
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
This book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the nineteenth century. This book brings together Victorian histories and novels to show how these parallel genres responded to the challenges of contemporary history writing in divergent ways.