Title: Picturing the past
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.
Subjects: English Historical fiction, Historiography, History, History and criticism, Illustrated books, Illustration of books, Illustrations, Victorian Illustration of books, Historical fiction, history and criticism, Great britain, historiography
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century