TY - BOOK AU - Anger,Suzy AU - Beer,Gillian AU - Bodenheimer,Rosemarie AU - Herbert,Christopher AU - Joseph,Gerhard AU - Levine,George AU - Loesberg,Jonathan AU - Poovey,Mary AU - Robbins,Bruce AU - Sabin,Margery AU - Stoddart,Judith AU - Tucker,Herbert F. AU - Williams,Carolyn TI - Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture SN - 9781501720635 U1 - 820.9/008 21 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - English literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Hermeneutics KW - History KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Knowledge, Theory of, in literature KW - England KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Knowing the Victorians --; I. Theorizing The Victorians --; I. Text vs. Hypertext: Seeing the Victorian Object As in Itself It Really Is --; 2. The Golden Bough and the Unknowable --; 3. Daniel Deronda: A New Epistemology --; II. Victorians Theorizing --; 4. Walter Pater's Impressionism and the Form of Historical Revival --; 5. Arnold and the Authorization of Criticism --; 6. Aesthetics, Ethics, and Unreadable Acts in George Eliot --; III. Continuities --; 7. The Structure Of Anxiety In Political Economy And Hard Times --; 8. How To Be A Benefactor Without Any Money: The Chill Of Welfare In Great Expectations --; 9. Tracking The Sentimental Eye --; IV. Victorian Meanings --; 10. Knowing and Telling in Dickens's Retrospects --; 11. Inside the Shark's Mouth: William Lovett's Struggle for Political Language --; 12. Knowing a Life: Edith Simcox-Sat est vixisse? --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - To what extent is it possible to know the past or to know other cultures? Can one describe the past without imposing one's own cultural, political, social, or personal preconceptions? Testing the current skepticism that insists that it is impossible not to read one's own moment onto other times and cultures, the essays in this collection use the Victorian era as a means of developing a theory and critique of historical reclamation.In Knowing the Past, a distinguished group of Victorian scholars reflect on the Victorian past and examine the Victorians' own sophisticated contributions to debates about historical and cultural knowledge. Confronting, confirming, and opposing the skeptics, the essays provide close readings of particular texts. They encompass the larger constellation of ideas and questions that went into the making of the texts while participating in larger theoretical debates about knowledge of the past and other cultures UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720635 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501720635 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501720635/original ER -