The Science of History in Victorian Britain

Making the Past Speak

By:

Ian Hesketh

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

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New attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalized, scientific methodology. The development of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several key historians of the Victorian period, influenced by German scientific history and British natural philosophy. This study examines parallels between the professionalization of both history and science at the time, which have previously been overlooked. Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources - monographs, lectures, correspondence - from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.

Author Biography:

Ian Hesketh is an Australia Research Council Future Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate, The Science o

Release date Australia

June 28th, 2021

Author

Ian Hesketh

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

248

Series

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13

9780822966364

Product ID

33300362

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