The Clothing of Clio : A Study of the Representation of History in Ninetennth-Century Britain and France (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The historian as taxidermist: Ranke, Barante, Waterton; 2. A cycle in historical discourse: Barante, Thierry, Michelet; 3. Image and letter in the rediscovery of the past: Daguarre, Charles Alfred Stothard, Landseer, Delaroche; 4. Poetics of the museum: Lenoir and Du Sommerard; 5. The historical composition of place: Byron and Scott; 6. Defences against irony: Barham, Ruskin, Fox Talbot; 7. Anti-history and the ante-hero: Thackeray, Reade, Browning, James; Postscript; Notes; Index.