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The Ends of History: Victorians and "the Woman Question" - Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Crosby, Christina (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA) 1st edition
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The Ends of History: Victorians and "the Woman Question" - Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
Crosby, Christina (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA)
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 Hegel?s Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macaulay?s History of England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collins? The Frozen Deep, and Mayhew?s survey of "labour and the poor"; Villette, Patrick Fairburn?s The Typology of Scripture and Ruskin?s 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. Crosby?s analysis raises a crucial question for today?s feminists ? how can one read historically without replicating the problem of nineteenth century "history"?
The book was first published in 1991.
200 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 4, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138008038 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 200 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 294 g |
| Language | English |
