The historical imagination in nineteenth-century Britain and the Low Countries / / edited by Hugh Dunthorne and Michael Wintle.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dunthorne, Hugh.; Wintle, Michael J.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: National Cultivation of Culture 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The nineteenth century laid the foundations of history as a professional discipline but also popularized and romanticized the subject. National histories were written and state museums founded, while collective memories were created in fiction and drama, art and architecture and through the growth o...