History, Historians, and AutobiographyUniversity of Chicago Press, 2005 M05 9 - 339 páginas Though history and autobiography both claim to tell true stories about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subjective and therefore unreliable. What then, asks Jeremy D. Popkin in History, Historians, and Autobiography, are we to make of the ever-increasing number of professional historians who are publishing stories of their own lives? And how is this recent development changing the nature of history-writing, the historical profession, and the genre of autobiography? Drawing on the theoretical work of contemporary critics of autobiography and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Popkin reads the autobiographical classics of Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams and the memoirs of contemporary historians such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Peter Gay, Jill Ker Conway, and many others, he reveals the contributions historians' life stories make to our understanding of the human experience. Historians' autobiographies, he shows, reveal how scholars arrive at their vocations, the difficulties of writing about modern professional life, and the ways in which personal stories can add to our understanding of historical events such as war, political movements, and the traumas of the Holocaust. An engrossing overview of the way historians view themselves and their profession, this work will be of interest to readers concerned with the ways in which we understand the past, as well as anyone interested in the art of life-writing. |
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Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
1 History and Autobiography | 11 |
2 Narrative Theory History and Autobiography | 33 |
3 Historians as Autobiographers | 57 |
Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams | 92 |
The Issue of Vocation in Historians Autobiographies | 120 |
Historians on Their Professional Lives | 151 |
7 Historians Autobiographies and Historical Experience | 184 |
8 Holocaust Memories Historians Memoirs | 221 |
9 Historians and the Reshaping of Personal Narrative | 246 |
CONCLUSION | 277 |
NOTES | 287 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 307 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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