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Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790-1850

Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790-1850

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

Literary CriticismIrish History

ISBN10: 1474481884
ISBN13: 9781474481885
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: May 31 2022
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Working against the long-standing belief that romantic-era history is primarily sentimental, Romantic Pasts argues that historians from Mary Wollstonecraft to Thomas Carlyle developed a new kind of cognitive or psychological historicism that was as much concerned with motive as with affect. Recognising that feelings could be a viable object of historical study as well as a sentimental or affective mode, these historians increasingly reconfigured psycho-physiological and behavioural processes as situated and historically variable phenomena that could reflect changes in social and historical contexts. Weaving together literary criticism, the history of emotion, theories of the novel and philosophies of history, this book rethinks both the paradigms of resurrection and revivification that have come to stand for romantic history and that history's place within the development of modern history.

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