Reimagining the historian in Victorian England : books, the literary marketplace, and the scholarly persona / Elise Garritzen.
Garritzen, Elise, author.
2023
D13.5.G7 G37 2023
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Title Reimagining the historian in Victorian England : books, the literary marketplace, and the scholarly persona / Elise Garritzen.
Author Garritzen, Elise, author.
ISBN 9783031284618 electronic book
3031284615 electronic book
9783031284601
3031284607
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28461-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 390 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-28461-8 doi
Call Number D13.5.G7 G37 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 907.2041
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 21, 2023).
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1. Introduction: From Rhetorical Diarrhea to a Branch of Science
Part I. Historians as Scholars
2. Educated and Well-connected Oxbridge Men
3.Champions of a Virtuous Historian
4. Almost Antiquaries
Part II. Historians as Educators
5. Teachers with Scientific Credentials
6. Mentors of the Scientific History
7. From Public Intellectuals to Radicalized Historians
Part III. Historians as Entrepreneurs
8. Commercial but Scholarly Dignified Historians
9. Sincere and Insincere Advertisers
10. Air of a Dignified Historian
11. Conclusion: Heavenly Historians and their Persona.

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