Time: The Fatalist Loop—Historical Culture and Popular Empowerment in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-210
Author(s):  
Pablo Sánchez León
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Culture

The Pleasures of Tudor Horror: Popular Histories, Modernity and Sensationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century

Tudorism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
BILLIE MELMAN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Tower Of London ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Culture ◽  
Radical Culture

This chapter discusses Tudorism in popular historical culture during the nineteenth century. First, it briefly delineates the apparent streamlining of the Tudor era into a broadly Whig and liberal-radical culture of progress and improvement and the confident interpretation of history. It then focuses on the evolution of popular Tudorism with its emphasis upon, and uses of, horror and its relations to modernity and urbanisation: what Dickens described as the ‘attraction of repulsion’ in horror. It traces developments in representations, meanings, and uses of Tudor horror, mainly by concentrating on the Tower of London, which during the nineteenth century evolved into an embodiment of the history of England, and the site of continuous debate and contest over access to, and ownership of, the Tudors.

scholarly journals State of Mind: History and the Narrative of Nationalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Heather Reil
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Historical Culture ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ultimate Purpose

Nationalism, the belief in the existence of distinct and enduring connections between an ethnic group, their historical culture, and their homeland, and in the need for such a people to be self-governing, was a significant force behind nineteenth-century historical inquiry. This paper examines the work of two European historians of this era and persuasion in order to investigate the influence this notion had on their scholarship. It explores how these historians wrote about the nation, perceived the role of nationalism in their work, and responded to potential conflicts between historical realities their nationalist ends. Such a study contributes to the debate on the ultimate purpose of history, the relationship between fact and interpretation, and the position of the historian in his or her own historical context.

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