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Why were the Victorians so passionate about "e;History"e;?How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession - the "e;woman question"e;? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians' fascination with "e;history"e; and with the nature of "e;women."e;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 "e;labour and the poor"e;; Villette, Patrick Fairburn's The Typology of Scripture and Ruskin's Modern Painters - she argues that the construction of middle-class Victorian "e;man"e; as the universal subject of history entailed the identification of "e;women"e; 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 "e;history"e;?The book was first published in 1991.
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