The Ends of History - 9781138008038

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The Ends of HistoryVictorians and \""the Woman Question\""\nAuthor(s): Christina Crosby\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138008038, 978-1138008038\nSynopsis\nWhy were the Victorians so passionate about \""History\""?\n\nHow did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession the \""woman question\""? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians fascination with \""history\"" and with the nature of \""women.\""\n\nDiscussing both key novels and non-literary texts Daniel Deronda and Hegels Philosophy of History; Henry Esmond and Macaulays History of England; Little Dorrit, Wilkie Collins The Frozen Deep, and Mayhews survey of \""labour and the poor\""; Villette, Patrick Fairburns The Typology of Scripture and Ruskins Modern Painters she argues that the construction of middle-class Victorian \""man\"" as the universal subject of history entailed the identification of .