Alternate Histories and Nineteenth Century Literature Untimely Meditations in Britain France and America 1st Edition by Ben Carver ISBN 1137573341 9781137573346

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ISBN 10: 1137573341 
ISBN 13: 9781137573346
Author: Ben Carver

This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as “alternate histories”—proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that “discovered” improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The “untimely” imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century.

Alternate Histories and Nineteenth Century Literature Untimely Meditations in Britain France and America 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Castle of If
Chapter 2 Napoleonic Imaginaries
Other Napoleons
Phantasms and Hoaxes
Historic Doubts: A Sceptical Alternative
Napoléon Apocryphe: “This Immense Reality”
“History’s Slave”: Tolstoy’s Condemnation
Chapter 3 Inheriting Antiquity: Political Genealogy in Disraeli and Renouvier
“The Perfect Story of Mankind”
Romantic Politics and Style
Romance and History
Uchronie: Liberty and History in Renouvier
Inheritance and Evolution
Chapter 4 Nebulous History and the Plurality of Worlds
“Beyond the Visible”
Theological Limits: “What Is Man, that Thou Art Mindful of Him?”
History and Nebulae
Instruments of Perception
Hale’s and Flammarion’s Alternate-Historical Beings
Blanqui, Nietzsche, and the Materialism of History
Chapter 5 Lost Worlds and the (Un)Natural History of Gender
“Replaying Life’s Tape”: The Alternate History of Nature
The Island Paradigm as Rule and Exception
Lost Worlds and the Recovery of Masculinity
Recovering the Female (Selector)
Eugenics and Education in Mizora
Women, Evolution, and Economics
Herland—For Him
Chapter 6 Earliness and Lateness: Alternate History in American Literature
Anchor 2
Aristopia: Renewing the Republic
“Perennial Rebirth”: New and Old Frontiers
Transatlantic “Correspondence”
A Connecticut Yankee: Twain’s Historical Romance
Time Travel and Philology
Multiple Worlds
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Infinite Worlds

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