Rethinking Historical Distance by B. Caine (English) Hardcover Book

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The idea of distance is one of the defining principles of modern historical method. This volume gives the discussion of historical distance new breadth, flexibility and importance by incorporating diverse modes of representation including photography, sculpture, painting, musical theatre, and fashion.

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The idea of distance is one of the defining principles of modern historical method. This volume gives the discussion of historical distance new breadth, flexibility and importance by incorporating diverse modes of representation including photography, sculpture, painting, musical theatre, and fashion.

Author Biography

Bain Attwood, Professor, Monash University, AustraliaPeter Burke, former Professor, University of Cambridge, UKTimothy Campbell, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, USAIvan Gaskell, Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York City, USAMatthew Lauzon, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, USAJürgen Pieters, Professor, Ghent University, BelgiumAdam Phillips, British child psychotherapist, literary critic and essayistRuth B. Phillips, Professor, Carleton University, CanadaMG Sullivan, former Curator, Ashmolean Museum, UKCarolyn Williams, Professor, Rutgers University, USA

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Re-thinking Historical Distance; Mark Salber Phillips PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. A Short History of Distance; Peter Burke 2. Historical Distance, Historical Judgment; Ivan Gaskell 3. The Travels of Fiction: Literature, Distance, and the Representation of the Past; Jurgen Pieters PART II: BIOGRAPHIES AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 4. Biography and the Question of Historical Distance; Barbara Caine 5. Close-Ups; Adam Phillips PART III: THEATRE AND ITS DISTANCES 6. 'Time Has Rendered These Allusions Natural': Re-enacting the Saint-Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1789; Matthew Lauzon 7. Parody and Re-enactment in the Comic Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; Carolyn Williams PART IV: VISUAL STUDIES: SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FASHION 8. Sir Francis Chantrey: Sculpture, History, and Geology; M.G. Sullivan 9. Photographic Calculations: Intimate Trauma and Cool Distance in Post-war Japan; Julia Adeney Thomas 10. Fashion, Microcosm, and Romantic Historical Distance; Timothy Campbell PART V: DISTANCE AND POST-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVES 11. 'Distance' and Settler Australia's Black History; Bain Attwood 12. Closing the Distance: Time, Historicity, and Contemporary Indigenous Art; Ruth B. Phillips

Long Description

This volume brings new depth to the analysis of historical distance by looking at its importance in fields that extend far beyond the usual bounds of history, including psychoanalysis and the visual and performing arts. Its sources include 19th century British sculpture, musical theatre, and late 18th and 19th century fashion plates. The book offers general introductory discussions of how historical distance might best be understood in contemporary historiography, of changing ideals of distance and proximity as they have taken shape in Western thought from the Renaissance to modernity and of historical judgments and their meanings. It includes a range of essays that explore the importance of distance in relation to a number of different problems and periods, including how the use of historical distance as a framework might offer new ways of distinguishing literary fictions from histories, or a new understanding of the changing pattern of biography over the past two centuries. The range of forms and media covered by the essays in this collection greatly expands not only ways of thinking about historical distance, but the nature and meaning of history. By incorporating this wide range of different material and an equally wide range of approaches, the volume gives the discussion of historical distance a new breadth, flexibility and importance.

Details ISBN0230284086 Year 2013 ISBN-10 0230284086 ISBN-13 9780230284081 Media Book Format Hardcover Language English DEWEY 907.2 Publication Date 2013-11-06 Short Title RETHINKING HISTORICAL DISTANCE Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1958 AU Release Date 2013-11-06 NZ Release Date 2013-11-06 UK Release Date 2013-11-06 Edited by B. Caine Author B. Caine Pages 262 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Series Re-Enactment History Alternative 9781349329267 Illustrations XI, 262 p. Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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