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Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature - Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature - Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of
nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history
might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and
scenarios-referred to here as "alternate histories"-proliferated
during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes
and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts
of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of
western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century)
present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds,
lost-world fictions that "discovered" improved relations between
men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to
reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The
"untimely" imagination of other histories interrogated the impact
of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself.
This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and
the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the
nineteenth century.
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