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Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain
Engelsk Hardback
Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain
Engelsk Hardback

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Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain explores the rise and nature of historicist thinking about such varied topics as life, race, character, literature, language, economics, empire, and law. The contributors show that the Victorians typically understood life and society as developing historically in a way that made history central to their intellectual inquiries and their public culture. Although their historicist ideas drew on some Enlightenment themes, they drew at least as much on organic ideas and metaphors in ways that lent them a developmental character. This developmental historicism flourished alongside evolutionary motifs and romantic ideas of the self. The human sciences were approached through narratives, and often narratives of reason and progress. Life, individuals, society, government, and literature all unfolded gradually in accord with underlying principles, such as those of rationality, nationhood, and liberty. This book will appeal to those interested in Victorian Britain, historiography, and intellectual history.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
278
ISBN-13:
9781107166684
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1107166683
Udg. Dato:
10 mar 2017
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
160mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
10 mar 2017
Forfatter(e):
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