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- catalog abstract ""Miriam Elizabeth Burstein demonstrates the significance of popular women's history for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century imagination. By analyzing how early women's history was practiced by both women and men, she shows that it did not evolve straightforwardly into the women's history we know today. Burstein traces the narratives of women's history through canonical novels by Sir Walter Scott, W.M. Thackeray, and George Eliot; Enlightenment philosophical history; the biography collection; sermons and didactic literature; and periodical articles. As this listing indicates, women's history was neither invisible nor subversive. Quite the contrary: it was an integral part of popular historical thinking, and its protean nature allowed it to be appropriated and practiced by everyone from evangelicals to radical suffragists. Many writers used women's history to define the meaning of both modernity and historical consciousness itself. Novelists in particular found that women's history served as a convenient shorthand for theorizing and representing historical change, but at the same time they also revealed its internal tensions. By tracing women's history across multiple genres from the Enlightenment to the late nineteenth century, Burstein shows that there was no easily identifiable 'tradition' of women's history, although many writers of the time attempted to construct one (as many still try today). In the end, she argues that jettisoning older claims about women's supposed 'invisibility' in history, as well as about the subversiveness of her appearance therein, allows us to revitalize questions about the women's 'voice', of 'writing women into history', and, indeed, of 'marginal literature' itself."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13309758.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Miriam Elizabeth Burstein demonstrates the significance of popular women's history for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century imagination. By analyzing how early women's history was practiced by both women and men, she shows that it did not evolve straightforwardly into the women's history we know today. Burstein traces the narratives of women's history through canonical novels by Sir Walter Scott, W.M. Thackeray, and George Eliot; Enlightenment philosophical history; the biography collection; sermons and didactic literature; and periodical articles. As this listing indicates, women's history was neither invisible nor subversive.".
- catalog description "In the end, she argues that jettisoning older claims about women's supposed 'invisibility' in history, as well as about the subversiveness of her appearance therein, allows us to revitalize questions about the women's 'voice', of 'writing women into history', and, indeed, of 'marginal literature' itself."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-215) and index.".
- catalog description "Quite the contrary: it was an integral part of popular historical thinking, and its protean nature allowed it to be appropriated and practiced by everyone from evangelicals to radical suffragists. Many writers used women's history to define the meaning of both modernity and historical consciousness itself. Novelists in particular found that women's history served as a convenient shorthand for theorizing and representing historical change, but at the same time they also revealed its internal tensions. By tracing women's history across multiple genres from the Enlightenment to the late nineteenth century, Burstein shows that there was no easily identifiable 'tradition' of women's history, although many writers of the time attempted to construct one (as many still try today).".
- catalog description "The Situation of women and history's situation : gender and historicism, 1771-1779 -- Spectacles and sentiments : disembodying women's history, 1789-1810 -- "Beautiful and poetic creations" : Scott and the fictions of women's history -- From good looks to good thoughts : forgetting women's history, c. 1832-c. 1876 -- Families and other fictions : Thackeray's The history of Henry Esmond, anti-catholicism, and the "birth" of domesticity -- Charisi's trunk and Grandcourt's estate : gender, love, and history in Daniel Deronda.".
- catalog extent "220 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Narrating women's history in Britain, 1770-1902.".
- catalog identifier "0754636631 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Narrating women's history in Britain, 1770-1902.".
- catalog isPartOf "Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)".
- catalog isPartOf "The nineteenth century series".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,".
- catalog relation "Narrating women's history in Britain, 1770-1902.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "305.4/0941 22".
- catalog subject "HQ1593 .B865 2004".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Situation of women and history's situation : gender and historicism, 1771-1779 -- Spectacles and sentiments : disembodying women's history, 1789-1810 -- "Beautiful and poetic creations" : Scott and the fictions of women's history -- From good looks to good thoughts : forgetting women's history, c. 1832-c. 1876 -- Families and other fictions : Thackeray's The history of Henry Esmond, anti-catholicism, and the "birth" of domesticity -- Charisi's trunk and Grandcourt's estate : gender, love, and history in Daniel Deronda.".
- catalog title "Narrating women's history in Britain, 1770-1902 / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".