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The Ends of History - Victorians and "the Woman Question" (Hardcover)
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The Ends of History - Victorians and "the Woman Question" (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
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Why were the Victorians so passionate about "History"? How did this
passion relate to another Victorian obsession - the "woman
question"? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby
investigates the links between the Victorians' fascination with
"history" and with the nature of "women." Discussing both key
novels and non-literary texts - Daniel Deronda and Hegel's
Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macaulay's History of
England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collins' The Frozen Deep, and
Mayhew's survey of "labour and the poor"; Villette, Patrick
Fairburn's The Typology of Scripture and Ruskin's Modern Painters -
she argues that the construction of middle-class Victorian "man" as
the universal subject of history entailed the identification of
"women" as those who are before, beyond, above, or below history.
Crosby's analysis raises a crucial question for today's feminists -
how can one read historically without replicating the problem of
nineteenth century "history"? The book was first published in 1991.
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