Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image, by Rosemary Mitchell

By Rosemary Mitchell

via a sequence of interrelated case-studies of nineteenth-century heritage books, historical past textbooks, and historic novels, Rosemary Mitchell attracts out the attitudes of Victorians towards their nationwide earlier. She highlights how history--once a favored pastime--became the safeguard of execs and the way either the textual content and photographs in well known and scholarly courses contributed to Victorian cultural identities.

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