書目名稱 | Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England |
副標(biāo)題 | Books, the Literary |
編輯 | Elise Garritzen |
視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/826/825899/825899.mp4 |
概述 | Traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline.Examines the role which epistemic and moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly |
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描述 | .What constitutes a historian? What skills and qualities should a historian cultivate? Who is entitled to define historians’ “physiognomy”? Victorians sought to answer these questions as history transformed from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century. This book offers a novel interpretation of this critical historiographical period by tracing how historians forged themselves a collective scholarly persona that legitimized their new disciplinary status. By combining historiography and book history, Elise Garritzen argues that historians appropriated titles, prefaces, footnotes, and other paratexts as an institutionalized space for fashioning the persona. Yet, historians did not have a monopoly on the persona as readers and reviewers offered their interpretations of the persona, and publishers influenced the paratextual presentation of the persona. By ascribing agency to paratexts and the literary marketplace, Garritzen makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of scholarly personae and modern disciplines. The book offers a novel approach to the role which scholarly virtues held in the Victorian societ |
出版日期 | Book 2023 |
關(guān)鍵詞 | Book history; Persona studies; Scholarly persona; Epistemology; Late-Victorian England; Academia; Footnote |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28461-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-28463-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-28461-8 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |