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Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America

Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America

Carver, Ben

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1137573333
ISBN13: 9781137573339
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 27 2017
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. 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. 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. The untimely imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century.

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