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Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The Living Age
Author: The Life of Sidney
Author: Hugh Frederick Hislop ElliotPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689
Author: Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689, in the University of Minnesota Library
Author: Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England
Author: Elise GarritzenPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031284615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a replacement for missing institutional structures, and converted book parts to a sphere where they could mould and perform their persona. By ascribing agency to titles, footnotes, running heads, typography, cover design, size, and other paratexts, the book makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of modern disciplines. By combining the persona and paratexts, it offers a novel approach to themes that have enjoyed great interest in the history of science. It examines, for example, the role which epistemic and moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly culture, the social organization and hierarchies of scholarly communities, the management of scholarly reputations, the commercialization of knowledge, and the relationship between the persona and the underpinning social, political, economic, and cultural structures and hierarchies. Making a significant contribution to persona studies, it provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge; book history; and Victorian culture.
Reader's Guide to British History
Author: David LoadesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000144364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 4319
Book Description
The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Collected Papers: Historical
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Collected Papers
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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