Sentimental masculinity and the rise of history, 1790-1890
By: Mike Goode.
Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism -- 80; Cambridge studies in Romanticism -- 80.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780521898591
Subjects: Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Historiography -- Philosophy; Historians -- Psychology; Masculinity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: The feeling of history; title: Edmund Burke and the erotics of romantic historicism; title: Reflections in the print shop windows : caricaturing and contenting historical sense in the Revolution controversy; title: Morbid antiquaries and vital men of feeling : the gender of history in the Waverley novels; title: Boredom and the excitements of history : settling interests, nerves, and narratives in Rob Roy and Northanger Abbey; title: Uneven manliness and the separate spheres of Victorian history; title: Coda: Living history, reenacting, and the period rush.