Fritzsche, P
Stranded in the Present
- ISBN 13:
- 9780674045873
- author:
- Fritzsche, P
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2010
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 13 x 2.5 cm
- Genre:
- History
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Stranded in the Present Modern Time and the Melancholy of History explores how Europeans and Americans perceived themselves within the drama of history. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, contemporaries saw themselves as occupants of an utterly new period.
In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche examines how people took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, generating countless stories about their paths through history. Writers and painters, revolutionaries and exiles, soldiers and widows, and ordinary home dwellers all took a passionate interest in the past, arguing politics, writing diaries, devouring memoirs, and collecting antiques.
This book offers a surprising look at the modern age, tracing the scars of history and examining our possessions, heritage, and newly considered selves. It is a thought-provoking exploration of how people have engaged with their past in the 19th century.
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