The Ends Of History

Why were the Victorians so passionate about "History"? How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsessione" the "woman question"? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorianse(tm) fascination with "history" and with the nature of "women." Discussing both key novels and non-literary textse" Daniel Deronda and Hegele(tm)s Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macaulaye(tm)s History of England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collinse(tm) The Frozen Deep, and Mayhewe(tm)s survey of "labour and the poor"; Villette, Patrick Fairburne(tm)s The Typology of Scripture and Ruskine(tm)s Modern Painterse" 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. Crosbye(tm)s analysis raises a crucial question for todaye(tm)s feminists e" how can one read historically without replicating the problem of nineteenth century "history"? The book was first published in 1991. 9781138008038 1138008036 0 English literature NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Dte1ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Christina Crosby
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jul 04, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 200 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1138008036
• • ISBN-13: 9781138008038