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This 1984 text is concerned with how the past was represented in Britain and France in the nineteenth century. This was a period of unprecedented historical-mindedness, during which the past was taken as subject matter. Dr Bann argues that the concrete vision of the past should be studied across the whole field of representation.

Table of Contents
List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The historian as taxidermist: Ranke, Barante, Waterton; 2. A cycle in historical discourse: Barante, Thierry, Michelet; 3. Image and letter in the rediscovery of the past: Daguarre, Charles Alfred Stothard, Landseer, Delaroche; 4. Poetics of the museum: Lenoir and Du Sommerard; 5. The historical composition of place: Byron and Scott; 6. Defences against irony: Barham, Ruskin, Fox Talbot; 7. Anti-history and the ante-hero: Thackeray, Reade, Browning, James; Postscript; Notes; Index.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/17/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521180887, 978-0521180887
      ISBN10: 0521180880
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 1984 text is concerned with how the past was represented in Britain and France in the nineteenth century. This was a period of unprecedented historical-mindedness, during which the past was taken as subject matter. Dr Bann argues that the concrete vision of the past should be studied across the whole field of representation.

      Table of Contents
      List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The historian as taxidermist: Ranke, Barante, Waterton; 2. A cycle in historical discourse: Barante, Thierry, Michelet; 3. Image and letter in the rediscovery of the past: Daguarre, Charles Alfred Stothard, Landseer, Delaroche; 4. Poetics of the museum: Lenoir and Du Sommerard; 5. The historical composition of place: Byron and Scott; 6. Defences against irony: Barham, Ruskin, Fox Talbot; 7. Anti-history and the ante-hero: Thackeray, Reade, Browning, James; Postscript; Notes; Index.

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