The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) - Tapa dura

Hesketh, Ian

 
9781848931268: The Science of History in Victorian Britain: Making the Past Speak (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)

Sinopsis

Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources – monographs, lectures, correspondence – from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.

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'does an excellent job of giving us both the petty feuds and the principles behind them.' Times Literary Supplement 'It is certainly useful to have a study of an important conceptual debate that goes into the political wings so thoroughly' British Society for Literature and Science 'an excellent, careful account of the antiliterary, anti-Romantic perspectives of those well-known founders of academic history' Journal of British Studies 'well planned, well informed and genuinely well written.' Victorian Studies 'this colorful and conflicted history of the battle between the art of history and the science of history is a welcome addition to the growing literature on nineteenth-century science and culture.' Left History 'this book deserves much credit for making light of little-known and complex debates, and for demonstrating how great a variety of methodological standpoints is hidden behind the 'Whig' political label under which most of the historians it studies have usually been grouped.' British Journal for the History of Science 'artfully conceived and highly readable' Canadian Journal of History 'Hesketh pays welcome attention to the intellectual and religious currents that shaped Victorian historians' lives and, by extension, their methods.' Victorian Review ' [Hesketh's] research is exhaustive and his use of text, from both the main characters and their observers, beautifully illustrates the thought behind the arguments ... [an] excellent volume.' Mad, bad and desperate - crime and insanity in Victorian England

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Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources – monographs, lectures, correspondence – from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.

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