Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries
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Word Count
67,500 words, Guess
Page Count
270 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004233799
- ISBN-109004233792
- Better World Books9789004233799
- Open LibraryOL34375181M
Classifications
- LCCDA530.H57 2013
Description
The nineteenth century laid the foundations of history as a professional discipline but also popularized and romanticized the subject. National histories were written and state museums founded, while collective memories were created in fiction and drama, art and architecture and through the growth of tourism and the emergence of a heritage industry. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized. They conclude that although nationalistic historicism ruled in all genres, the interaction of the nineteenth century with its imagined past was far richer and more complex, both across national borders and within them --
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