Rethinking Historical Distance

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Re-thinking Historical Distance; Mark Salber Phillips PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. A Short History of Distance; Peter Burke 2. Historical Distance, Historical Judgment; Ivan Gaskell 3. The Travels of Fiction: Literature, Distance, and the Representation of the Past; Jurgen Pieters PART II: BIOGRAPHIES AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 4. Biography and the Question of Historical Distance; Barbara Caine 5. Close-Ups; Adam Phillips PART III: THEATRE AND ITS DISTANCES 6. 'Time Has Rendered These Allusions Natural': Re-enacting the Saint-Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1789; Matthew Lauzon 7. Parody and Re-enactment in the Comic Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; Carolyn Williams PART IV: VISUAL STUDIES: SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FASHION 8. Sir Francis Chantrey: Sculpture, History, and Geology; M.G. Sullivan 9. Photographic Calculations: Intimate Trauma and Cool Distance in Post-war Japan; Julia Adeney Thomas 10. Fashion, Microcosm, and Romantic Historical Distance; Timothy Campbell PART V: DISTANCE AND POST-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVES 11. 'Distance' and Settler Australia's Black History; Bain Attwood 12. Closing the Distance: Time, Historicity, and Contemporary Indigenous Art; Ruth B. Phillips