Titlebook: George Eliot and Victorian Historiography; Imagining the Nation Neil McCaw Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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Giovanni Castellini,Mario Maggi,Valdo Riccad within the context of wider Victorian debates concerning historiography and the representation of the historical past. The novels act as arenas within which these debates about history/History and historicity are played out. The ongoing and fundamental concern with the dynamics of historical proce

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43008-5, the writer/historian is given licence to overcome the deficiencies of this evidence, and thus at the heart of the reconstructive process is a certain artistry; formally, this tends towards a narrative analogy.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263759nd Destiny that are imagined within Eliot’s fictional narratives, both offer metaphysical rationales for historical change. They also mark attempts to unify and assign moral-spiritual meaning to human experience in the face of a confusing, dispiriting present. This realization of history will be the central focus of this chapter.

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George Eliot and the (Meta)Narrativity of History,, the writer/historian is given licence to overcome the deficiencies of this evidence, and thus at the heart of the reconstructive process is a certain artistry; formally, this tends towards a narrative analogy.

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A Natural History of English Life,. . featured in her notebooks. and, in a letter to her friend Eugène Bodichon, she noted how she was ‘deep among the gravities now. I have been reading aloud Green’s first vol. of his new larger History of the English People.’. As such, an allusion to Green does not stand out as especially unusual.

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A Carlylean Counter-Paradigm,that are themselves subject to critique and even censure. Hence the awkward imagining of a privileged Anglo-Saxon identity (the retrospective apotheosis of Victorian Englishness), and the paradoxical reinforcement of the dominant progress narrative. Neither of these is fully sustainable in the light of a deeply pessimistic vision of the present.

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Theodicy and History,nd Destiny that are imagined within Eliot’s fictional narratives, both offer metaphysical rationales for historical change. They also mark attempts to unify and assign moral-spiritual meaning to human experience in the face of a confusing, dispiriting present. This realization of history will be the central focus of this chapter.

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Book 2000iting of history. The inherent uncertainty caused by the shift between different perceptions of English history leads, in the later fiction, to an abandonment of contemporaneous grand narratives. The consequence is a history that anticipates a more modern, radical philosophy of history.