Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature - Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America Carver BenPevná vazba
Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature - Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America Carver BenPevná vazba This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of…
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Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature - Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America Carver BenPevná vazba
This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that "discovered" improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios--referred to here as "alternate histories"--proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge.
The "untimely" imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history