Time travelers : Victorian encounters with time and history
Time travelers
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
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| Omfang | xxvii, 285 sider : illustrasjoner, kart, figurer
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| Opplysninger | Foreword Mary Beard IntroductionAdelene Buckland Part One: Narratives1. Looking to Our Ancestors Sadiah Qureshi2. Looking Around the World Peter Mandler 3. The World beneath Our Feet Adelene Buckland Part Two: Origins4. Ad Fontes Simon Goldhill 5. In the Beginning Helen Brookman6. Under False Pretenses Astrid Swenson 7. Through the Proscenium Arch Rachel Bryant Davies Part Three: Time in Transit 8. On PilgrimageMichael Ledger-Lomas 9. Across the DivideDavid Gange 10. At SeaClare Pettitt Part Four: Unfinished Business 11. Looking ForwardJocelyn Betts 12. How We Got Here Daniel Wilson AcknowledgmentsList of Contributors List of Illustrations Index. - "Time Travelers is a book about the different and complex ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid new picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions. Although the nineteenth century was not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of the Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of lasting importance. It gave rise, for example, to many of our modern disciplines, and the accessibility of these new pasts to ever broader social groups gave them unprecedented power to shape culture in ways that continue to structure our own engagements with the past"--
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| ISBN | 9780226676654. - 9780226676791
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