The Ends of History : Victorians and "the Woman Question"
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Why were the Victorians so passionate about "History"?
How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession the "woman question"? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians fascination with "history" and with the nature of "women."
Discussing both key novels and non-literary texts Daniel Deronda and Hegels Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macaulays History of England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collins The Frozen Deep, and Mayhews survey of "labour and the poor"; Villette, Patrick Fairburns The Typology of Scripture and Ruskins Modern Painters she argues that the construction of middle-class Victorian "man" as the universal subject of history entailed the identification of "women" as those who are before, beyond, above, or below history. Crosbys analysis raises a crucial question for todays feminists how can one read historically without replicating the problem of nineteenth century "history"?
The book was first published in 1991.
Why were the Victorians so passionate about "History"?
How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession the "woman question"? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians fascination with "history" and with the nature of "women."
Discussing both key novels and non-literary texts Daniel Deronda and Hegels Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macaulays History of England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collins The Frozen Deep, and Mayhews survey of "labour and the poor"; Villette, Patrick Fairburns The Typology of Scripture and Ruskins Modern Painters she argues that the construction of middle-class Victorian "man" as the universal subject of history entailed the identification of "women" as those who are before, beyond, above, or below history. Crosbys analysis raises a crucial question for todays feminists how can one read historically without replicating the problem of nineteenth century "history"?
The book was first published in 1991.
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