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- catalog abstract ""Imperfect Histories puts "imperfection" at the heart of a theory of historical representation. Ann Rigney shows how historical writing involves dealing with intractable subjects that resist our efforts to know and to shape them. Those who write history, she says, engage in an ongoing struggle to match up what they find relevant in the past with the information and interpretive models at their disposal. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of historical practice. This dissatisfaction is especially evident in the various attempts made over the last two centuries to write an "alternative" history of everyday experience." "Focusing on historical writing in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth, Rigney analyzes a wide range of works by Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, Augustin Thierry, and Thomas Carlyle. She shows how the attempt to write an alternative history brought historical writing into a close yet fraught relationship with literature. The result is a new account of that relationship as it took shape in the romantic period and as it continues to influence contemporary practices."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12180338.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Focusing on historical writing in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth, Rigney analyzes a wide range of works by Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, Augustin Thierry, and Thomas Carlyle. She shows how the attempt to write an alternative history brought historical writing into a close yet fraught relationship with literature. The result is a new account of that relationship as it took shape in the romantic period and as it continues to influence contemporary practices."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Imperfect Histories puts "imperfection" at the heart of a theory of historical representation. Ann Rigney shows how historical writing involves dealing with intractable subjects that resist our efforts to know and to shape them. Those who write history, she says, engage in an ongoing struggle to match up what they find relevant in the past with the information and interpretive models at their disposal. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of historical practice. This dissatisfaction is especially evident in the various attempts made over the last two centuries to write an "alternative" history of everyday experience."".
- catalog description "1. Hybridity: The Case of Sir Walter Scott -- 2. Representability: Cultural History and the Fear of Long Books -- 3. Sublimity: Thomas Carlyle and the Aesthetics of Historical Ignorance -- 4. Literature and the Longing for History.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (183-203) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 209 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Imperfect histories.".
- catalog identifier "0801438616 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Imperfect histories.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog relation "Imperfect histories.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.0810908 21".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Historical fiction, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Historical fiction, French History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Historicism History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Historiography France History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Historiography Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history France History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR868.H5 R54 2001".
- catalog subject "Romanticism France.".
- catalog subject "Romanticism Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Waverley novels.".
- catalog subject "Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. Waverley novels.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Hybridity: The Case of Sir Walter Scott -- 2. Representability: Cultural History and the Fear of Long Books -- 3. Sublimity: Thomas Carlyle and the Aesthetics of Historical Ignorance -- 4. Literature and the Longing for History.".
- catalog title "Imperfect histories : the elusive past and the legacy of romantic historicism / Ann Rigney.".
- catalog type "text".