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George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past

George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past

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Literary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 0312234139
ISBN13: 9780312234133
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 2 2000
Pages: 203
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.74 Depth: 8.78
Language: English
In this new study of George Eliot's fiction, textual attempts to imagine a coherent and unified national past are seen as producing a contradictory vision of Englishness. It is a historiographical national identity, constructed in the image of predominant, and conflicting, trends in the Victorian writing of history. The inherent uncertainty caused by the shift between different perceptions of English history leads, in the later fiction, to an abandonment of contemporaneous grand narratives. The consequence is a history that anticipates a more modern, radical philosophy of history.

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