Picturing the past
Subtitle: English history in text and image, 1830-1870
By: Rosemary Mitchell.
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Illustrated books -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Illustration of books -- Great Britain -- 19th century.; Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Illustration of books, Victorian -- Great Britain.; Historical fiction, English -- Illustrations.; Great Britain -- Historiography.
Description: "This monograph is a wide-ranging and analysis of representations in text and image of the English past between 1830 and 1870. It consists of a series of inter-related case-studies of illustrated history books, ranging from editions of David Hume's History of England to W. H. Ainsworth's The Tower of London (1840)." "It contributes to present debates on nationalism, highlighting the complex and variable nature of cultural constructions of identity. Simultaneously, it offers an overall interpretation of historiographical change in early and mid-Victorian Britain, focusing in particular on the transition from the picturesque reconstructions of the English past to the scientific approaches of the professional historian."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-303) and index.