{"product_id":"romantic-pasts-history-fiction-and-feeling-in-britain-1790-1850-paperback","title":"Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790-1850 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePorscha Fermanis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking against the long-standing belief that romantic-era history is primarily sentimental, \u003cem\u003eRomantic Pasts\u003c\/em\u003e argues that historians from Mary Wollstonecraft to Thomas Carlyle developed a new kind of cognitive or psychological historicism that was as much concerned with motive as with affect. Recognising that feelings could be a viable object of historical study as well as a sentimental or affective mode, these historians increasingly reconfigured psycho-physiological and behavioural processes as situated and historically variable phenomena that could reflect changes in social and historical contexts. Weaving together literary criticism, the history of emotion, theories of the novel and philosophies of history, this book rethinks both the paradigms of resurrection and revivification that have come to stand for romantic history and that history's place within the development of modern history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRethinks the characterisation of romantic-era written history as primarily sentimental Working against the long-standing belief that romantic-era history is primarily sentimental, Romantic Pasts argues that historians from Mary Wollstonecraft to Thomas Carlyle developed a new kind of cognitive or psychological historicism that was as much concerned with motive as with affect. Recognising that feelings could be a viable object of historical study as well as a sentimental or affective mode, these historians increasingly reconfigured psycho-physiological and behavioural processes as situated and historically variable phenomena that could reflect changes in social and historical contexts. Weaving together literary criticism, the history of emotions, theories of the novel and philosophies of history, this book rethinks the paradigm of resurrection or revivification that has come to stand for romantic history, as well as that history's place within the development of modern historiography. Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePorscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eWorlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. with Sarah Comyn, Manchester University Press, 2021). She is currently the principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded project 'SouthHem' and is completing a monograph entitled \u003ci\u003eSouthern Settler Fiction and the Transcolonial Imaginary, 1820-1890\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52693809889613,"sku":"9781474481892","price":69.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/ENcRjOxXNP9781474481892.webp?v=1762039227","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/romantic-pasts-history-fiction-and-feeling-in-britain-1790-1850-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}