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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckland, Adelene, editor.

Qureshi, Sadiah, editor.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy--History--19th century.

History.

Archaeology and history.

Great Britain--History--Philosophy.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of their preoccupations with the past were unprecedented and of lasting importance. The Victorians paved the way for our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain's most important national museums and galleries. To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to fresh debates, while seemingly well-known histories were thrown into confusion by novel tools and methods of scrutiny. 'Time Travelers' is a book about the myriad ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions.

Contents:

Foreword / Mary Beard

Introduction / Adelene Buckland

Part One: Narratives

1. Looking to Our Ancestors / Sadiah Qureshi

2. Looking Around the World / Peter Mandler

3. The World Beneath Our Feet / Adelene Buckland

Part Two: Origins

4. Ad Fontes / Simon Goldhill

5. In the Beginning / Helen Brookman

6. Under False Pretenses / Astrid Swenson

7. Through the Proscenium Arch / Rachel Bryant Davies

Part Three: Time in Transit

8. On Pilgrimage / Michael Ledger-Lomas

9. Across the Divide / David Gange

10. At Sea / Clare Pettitt

Part Four: Unfinished Business

11. Looking Forward / Jocelyn Paul Betts

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

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

List of Illustrations

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).

ISBN:

9780226676821

022667682X

OCLC:

1155440502