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The ends of history : Victorians and "the woman question" / Christina Crosby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crosby, Christina, 1953-2021.
- Series:
- Routledge library editions. Women's history ; v. 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Feminist fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Feminist fiction, English.
- Social problems in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 186 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2013.
- Summary:
- The Ends of History? considers how, despite the fact that events in the past 20 years have called Francis Fukuyama's infamous announcement of the end of history into question, the issue of the end of history is now a matter of renewed interest and debate.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Ends of History
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Communist Desire
- 2 Uneven Developments and the End to the History of Modernity's Social Democratic Orientation: Madison's Pro-Union Demonstrations
- 3 Imperial Ends
- 4 Of First and Last Men: Contract and Colonial Historicality in Foucault
- 5 A Presence of a Constant End: Contemporary Art and Popular Culture in Japan
- 6 Frank's Motel: Horizontal and Vertical in the Big Other
- 7 Hegel and Plasticity
- 8 Hegel's Last Words: Mourning and Melancholia at the End of the Phenomenology
- 9 "If you could take just two books …": Jacques Derrida at the Ends of the World with Heidegger and Robinson Crusoe
- 10 What Happened? What Is Going to Happen? An Essay on the Experience of the Event
- 11 History Drift
- Index.
- Notes:
- Reprint. First published: New York : Routledge, 1991.
- Original t.p. included.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-183) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781136248313
- 1136248315
- 9781136157752
- 1136157751
- 9781283871419
- 1283871416
- 9781138008038
- 1138008036
- 9780203078914
- 0203078918
- 9780415644884
- 0415644887
- 9780203104125
- 0203104129
- 9781283895453
- 1283895455
- 9781136248320
- 1136248323
- OCLC:
- 823389714
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