Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 390 pages)
,
illustrations (some color)
ISBN:
9783031284618
Content:
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 society, the formation of scholarly communities, the commodification of knowledge, and the management of scientific reputations. It provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge, book history, and Victorian culture. Elise Garritzen is an Academy of Finland researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research revolves around European historiography, cultural history, and book history
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Introduction: From Rhetorical Diarrhea to a Branch of Science -- Part I. Historians as Scholars -- 2. Educated and Well-connected Oxbridge Men -- 3.Champions of a Virtuous Historian -- 4. Almost Antiquaries -- Part II. Historians as Educators -- 5. Teachers with Scientific Credentials -- 6. Mentors of the Scientific History -- 7. From Public Intellectuals to Radicalized Historians -- Part III. Historians as Entrepreneurs -- 8. Commercial but Scholarly Dignified Historians -- 9. Sincere and Insincere Advertisers -- 10. Air of a Dignified Historian -- 11. Conclusion: Heavenly Historians and their Persona.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031284601
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031284618
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als ISBN 3031284607
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031284601
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Historiker
;
Professionalisierung
;
Geschichtsschreibung
;
Buchmarkt
;
Geschichte 1850-1900
