Titlebook: Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past; Memory, History, Fic Helen Kingstone Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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Power to the People? Proto-Social History Walpole. They were radical not only in narrating the controversial recent past, but also in aspiring to write social history. They all found this difficult to achieve in practice, and structured their narratives on a political chronology. Their radicalism comes into relief, however, in a comparison

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In Defence of Living Memory: “Sixty Years Since” or Lessalter Scott uses his ironic narratorial voice in . (1814) to negotiate between progressivism and nostalgia, three mid-Victorian women writers’ works are shown to deploy similar strategies. Charlotte Bront?’s . (1849), Elizabeth Gaskell’s “My Lady Ludlow” (1858–59) and George Eliot’s . (1866) and . (

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“Unhistoric” Individuals in the Provincial Novely Ludlow” (1858–59), and George Eliot’s . (1871–72). It argues that by focusing their narratives on provincial communities, these novelists reveal undercurrents invisible to national narratives. All three novels depict “unhistoric acts” by woman protagonists. Bront? gives voice to female yearnings f

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2634-6494 orary history anxiously defended themselves against criticisThis book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the nineteenth century. The legacy of Romantic historicism, the professionalization of the historical discipline, and even

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Immersion and Overview in Histories without Hindsightng history without hindsight. Unable to offer Enlightenment-style philosophical overview, they instead embraced their state of immersion. However, they and their reviewers saw the resultant focus on small-scale details in gendered terms, labeling them effeminate.

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