1st Edition

Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing

By Rohan Amanda Maitzen Copyright 1998
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1999. and Middlemarch and of a range of nineteenth-century historical works, including works by and about women that are discussed extensively here for the first time. The blurring of boundaries between historical and fictional narratives, stimulated by the enormous success of Walter Scott's novels, and the development of social history are shown to have been key factors in... Read more
Chapter 1 The Victorian Discourse of History; Chapter 2 ‘A Clique of Living Clios’; Chapter 3 Stitches in Time; Chapter 4 Gender and Historiography in Romola; Chapter 5 “‘Not At All Like Being A Queen’”?; Chapter 6 Mary and Elizabeth; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHYIndex;

Biography

Rohan Amanda Maitzen