Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature (eBook)
XVIII, 292 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-57334-6 (ISBN)
This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios-referred to here as 'alternate histories'-proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that 'discovered' improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The 'untimely' imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century.
Ben Carver is Associate Lecturer in English at Falmouth University, UK. He was awarded his doctorate from the University of Exeter in 2013 and since then has been teaching and researching nineteenth-century literature and culture. He is now studying the circulation of conspiracy beliefs and narratives, which is part of the COST-funded 'Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories' project.
This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios-referred to here as "e;alternate histories"e;-proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that "e;discovered"e; improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The "e;untimely"e; imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century.
Ben Carver is Associate Lecturer in English at Falmouth University, UK. He was awarded his doctorate from the University of Exeter in 2013 and since then has been teaching and researching nineteenth-century literature and culture. He is now studying the circulation of conspiracy beliefs and narratives, which is part of the COST-funded “Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories” project.
Introduction: Latency and history.- Chapter 1. Napoleonic Imaginaries.- Chapter 2. Inheriting Antiquity: Political Invention in Disraeli and Renouvier.- Chapter 3. Nebulous History and the Plurality of Worlds.- Chapter 4. Lost Worlds and Alternate Histories of Gender.- Chapter 5. Earliness and Lateness: Renewing American Dreams and Nightmares.- Conclusion: Invisible Worlds.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.10.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 292 p. 12 illus. |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Schlagworte | America • Britain • English literature • France • Great Britain • History • History of Literature • Literature • Nineteenth century • Writing |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-57334-1 / 1137573341 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-57334-6 / 9781137573346 |
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