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Goode, Mike

Sentimental masculinity and the rise of history, 1790-1890 - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 2009 - xi, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 80 . - Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 80. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-245) and index.

The feeling of history -- Edmund Burke and the erotics of romantic historicism -- Reflections in the print shop windows : caricaturing and contenting historical sense in the Revolution controversy -- Morbid antiquaries and vital men of feeling : the gender of history in the Waverley novels -- Boredom and the excitements of history : settling interests, nerves, and narratives in Rob Roy and Northanger Abbey -- Uneven manliness and the separate spheres of Victorian history -- Coda: Living history, reenacting, and the period rush.

ISBN: 9780521898591

LCCN: 2009517004

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA901674 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014865615 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historiography--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Historiography--Philosophy.
Historians--Psychology.
Masculinity.

LC Class. No.: DA1 / .G66 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 907.2041 / G613