Time travelers : Victorian encounters with time and history / edited by Adelene Buckland and Sadiah Qureshi ; with a foreword by Mary Beard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckland, Adelene, editor.

Qureshi, Sadiah, editor.

Beard, Mary, 1955- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy--19th century.

History.

Archaeology and history.

History--Philosophy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 285 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Time Travelers is a book about the different and complex ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid new picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions. Although the nineteenth century was not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of the Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of lasting importance. It gave rise, for example, to many of our modern disciplines, and the accessibility of these new pasts to ever broader social groups gave them unprecedented power to shape culture in ways that continue to structure our own engagements with the past"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Narratives

1 Looking to Our Ancestors p. 3 / Sadiah Quresni

2 Looking Around the World p. 24 / Peter Mandler

3 The World Beneath Our Feet p. 42 / Adelene Buckland

Part 2 Origins

4 Ad Pontes p. 67 / Simon Goldhill

5 In the Beginning p. 86 / Helen Brookman

6 Under False Pretenses p. 107 / Astrid Swenson

7 Through the Proscenium Arch p. 126 / Rachel Bryant Davies

Part 3 Time in Transit

8 On Pilgrimage p. 155 / Michael Ledger-Lomas

9 Across the Divide p. 176 / David Gange

10 At Sea p. 196 / Clare Pettitt

Part 4 Unfinished Business

11 Looking Forward p. 223 / Jocelyn Paul Betts

12 How We Got Here p. 242 / Daniel C. S. Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226676654

022667665X

9780226676791

022667679X

OCLC:

1118520647