Imperfect Histories : : The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism / / Ann Rigney.
Imperfect Histories puts "imperfection" at the heart of a theory of historical representation. Ann Rigney shows how historical writing involves dealing with intractable subjects that resist our efforts to know and to shape them. Those who write history, she says, engage in an ongoing strug...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Hybridity: The Case of Sir Walter Scott
- 2. Representability: Cultural History and the Fear of Long Books
- 3. Sublimity: Thomas Carlyle and the Aesthetics of Historical Ignorance
- 4. Literature and the Longing for History
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index