In the Olden Time
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Victorians and the British Past
Andrew Sanders
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In this richly textured and wide-ranging survey of Victorian attitudes to the past, Andrew Sanders builds on Roy Strong’s groundbreaking book And when did you last see your father?: The Victorian Painter and British History (1978). Sanders explores the essentially literary nature of Victorian history writing, and he reveals the degree to which painters were indebted to written records both fictional and factual. Starting with a stimulating comparison of Queens Elizabeth I and Victoria, In the Olden Time examines works by poets and painters, essayists and dramatists, architects and musicians, including Jane Austen, John Donne, William Shakespeare, and John Soane. Together with a study of religious history as seen through the eyes of architect and critic Augustus Pugin and journalist William Cobbett, this book offers an original view of Victorian responses to British history, presenting a fresh investigation of unexpected Victorian attitudes and the establishment of particular 20th-century prejudices and bias.
Andrew Sanders is emeritus professor, department of English, Durham University.
“In the Olden Time is a beautifully written and illustrated book, notably with little-known paintings such as Paul Delaroche’s Strafford on his Way to Execution and Cromwell Uncovering the Coffin of Charles I, showing the dictator taking a last peek at the king. One of the joys of this book is the range of material shown from private collections and neglected municipal galleries that are clearly worth a visit.”—Jad Adams, History Today,
‘Sanders’s book is a visual feast and a pleasure to read’—Tom Ashley, The Victorian
Publication Date: June 25, 2013
Publishing Partner: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
80 color + 20 b/w illus.
