Romantic Pasts

History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790-1850

By:

Porscha Fermanis

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

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Working against the long-standing belief that romantic-era history is primarily sentimental, Romantic Pasts argues that historians from Mary Wollstonecraft to Thomas Carlyle developed a new kind of cognitive or psychological historicism that was as much concerned with motive as with affect. Recognising that feelings could be a viable object of historical study as well as a sentimental or affective mode, these historians increasingly reconfigured psycho-physiological and behavioural processes as situated and historically variable phenomena that could reflect changes in social and historical contexts. Weaving together literary criticism, the history of emotion, theories of the novel and philosophies of history, this book rethinks both the paradigms of resurrection and revivification that have come to stand for romantic history and that history's place within the development of modern history.

Author Biography:

Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her most recent book is Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies (ed. with Sarah Comyn, Manchester University Press, 2021). She is currently the principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded project 'SouthHem' and is completing a monograph entitled Southern Settler Fiction and the Transcolonial Imaginary, 1820-1890.

Release date NZ

February 14th, 2024

Author

Porscha Fermanis

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

312

Series

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

Dimensions

156x234x17

ISBN-13

9781474481892

Product ID

38237354

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