Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention

ISBN-13: 9780367872892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Jaume Aurell

Opis

This book approaches historians' autobiographies, supplying biographical information and theoretical perspectives of the more outstanding historians such as Vico, Gibbon, Adams, Collingwood, Croce, Langer, Schlesinger, Braudel, Hobsbawm, Duby, Ariès, Conway, Steedman, Natalie Davis, Spiegel, Rosenstone, John Elliot and Geoff Eley. It provides a

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Humanistic Style: On the Nature of History  2. The Biographical Approach: Historians Describing the Self  3. Autobiography as Scholarship: French Ego-histoire  4. Autobiography as History: The Monographic Approach to the Self  5. Postmodernism and the Self: Autobiography as Poetry  6. Autobiography as Historiography: The Interventional Mode.  Conclusions.

O autorze

Jaume Aurell is Associate Professor at the Department of History at the University of Navarra (Spain). He is the author of Authoring the Past. History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia (Chicago, 2012).