Cover of Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845

Book 2014

Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Published
2014
  • Romanticism
  • Historiography
  • British literature
  • History and criticism
  • English literature
  • Intellectual life

Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845 rethinks the ways in which we understand the historical writing and the historical consciousness of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain by arguing that British historicism developed largely in quasi and para-historical genres such as memoir, biography, verse, fiction, and painting, rather than in works of 'real' history.--Provided by publisher