Ann Rigney 
Imperfect Histories [PDF ebook] 
The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism

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Imperfect Histories puts ‘imperfection’ at the heart of a theory of historical representation. Ann Rigney shows how historical writing involves dealing with intractable subjects that resist our efforts to know and to shape them. Those who write history, she says, engage in an ongoing struggle to match up what they find relevant in the past with the information and interpretive models at their disposal. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of historical practice. This is especially evident in the various attempts made over the last two centuries to write an ‘alternative’ history of everyday experience.
Focusing on historical writing in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth, Rigney analyzes a wide range of works by Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, Augustin Thierry, and Thomas Carlyle. She shows how the attempt to write an alternative history brought historical writing into a close yet fraught relationship with literature. The result is a new account of that relationship as it took shape in the romantic period and as it continues to influence contemporary practices.

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Ann Rigney is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Historical Representation: Three Narrative Histories of the French Revolution and coeditor of Historians and Social Values.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 224 ● ISBN 9781501729683 ● 文件大小 24.2 MB ● 出版者 Cornell University Press ● 市 Ithaca ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2018 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6660516 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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