| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 285 pages) |
| Series |
New directions in narrative history |
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New directions in narrative history.
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| Contents |
From "The death of woman Wang" (1978) / Jonathan Spence -- From "Mirror in the shrine" (1988) / Robert Rosenstone -- From "Dead certainties" (1991) / Simon Schama -- From "Aristocrats" (1994) / Stella Tillyard -- Lose your mother (2007) / Saidiya Hartman -- "The cause of her grief" : the rape of a slave in early New England (2007) / Wendy Warren -- The historian as death investigator (2011) / Stephen Berry -- The importance of being turbaned (2011) / Paul A. Kramer -- From "Conversions" (2011) / Craig Harline -- Benjamin Franklin's disciples (2012) / Amy Reading -- All about erections (2012) / Jill Lepore -- From "Jim Crow wisdom" (2013) / Jonathan Holloway -- For the love of stories (1998) / James Goodman -- What it will take to turn historians into writers (2001) / Louis P. Masur -- Letters to a tenured historian : history as creative nonfiction-or maybe even poetry (2010) / Aaron Sachs -- Novelties : a historian's field notes from fiction (2011) / Jane Kamensky -- History in the head, history from the heart : a personal manifesto (2016) / John Demos |
| Summary |
"A collection of memorable, stirring, and eloquent historical essays, designed to help any historian write more artfully. Is there any reason that serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression? Isn't it possible that the most committed empiricists and postmodernists might both achieve better results by thinking of writing as a craft, rather than just a means of packaging research? This book compiles some of the most compelling efforts to make history writing eloquent, stirring, and memorable, in the realms of both practice and theory. The authors included here prove the great potential of approaching the writing of history as a literary art, even as they retain a commitment to rigorous scholarship. The collection shows how historians can aspire to find a form that matches and enhances their substance, nudging readers toward what historian John Clive called the "spell that lingers in the memory and is conducive not just to reading but to rereading." With selections from: Jonathan Spence, Simon Schama, Saidiya Hartman, Wendy Warren, Jill Lepore, Louis Masur, Jane Kamensky, and John Demos, among others"-- Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2023) |
| Subject |
History -- Methodology.
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Creative nonfiction.
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Historiography.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Historiography
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historiography.
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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Creative nonfiction
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Historiography
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History -- Methodology
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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| Genre/Form |
essays.
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Creative nonfiction
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Essays
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Essays.
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Creative nonfiction.
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Essais.
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Essais fictionnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob), editor.
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Demos, John, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780300252040 |
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0300252048 |
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