@article{1476088,
      recid = {1476088},
      author = {Garritzen, Elise,},
      title = {Reimagining the historian in Victorian England : books,  the literary marketplace, and the scholarly persona /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 390 pages) :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476088},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28461-8},
}