Rethinking Historical Distance

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Rethinking Historical Distance....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
A Short History of Distance....Pages 21-33
Historical Distance, Historical Judgment....Pages 34-44
The Travels of Fiction: Literature, Distance, and the Representation of the Past....Pages 45-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Biography and the Question of Historical Distance....Pages 67-83
Close-Ups....Pages 84-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
‘Time Has Rendered These Allusions Natural’: Re-enacting the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1789....Pages 95-112
Parody and Re-enactment in the Comic Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan....Pages 113-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Sir Francis Chantrey: Sculpture, History, and Geology....Pages 139-157
Photographic Calculations: Intimate Trauma and Cool Distance in Postwar Japan....Pages 158-179
Fashion, Microcosm, and Romantic Historical Distance....Pages 180-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
‘Distance’ and Settler Australia’s Black History....Pages 207-223
Closing the Distance: Time, Historicity, and Contemporary Indigenous Art....Pages 224-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-262