A Liberal Descent

Burrow, J. W. (1981). A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past. Cambridge University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1981

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/liberal-descent/

Cited from

history_historiography

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Primes

• Anachronism
  • T1 — Deliberate anachronism vs. error conflation. As Burrow (1981) shows in his sociology of Victorian historians, readers and reviewers do not always distinguish marked from unmarked anachronisms.

    This sourceHistorical sociology of Victorian historiography (Macaulay, Stubbs, Freeman, Froude) and its Whig anachronistic projections — supports the marked-vs-unmarked-anachronism-conflation tension (D40-074).

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