Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0674068157 . Slight bow to boards else fine. Faint shelfwear to DJ. ; In our world of sophisticated literary theory and cliometrics, the gap between literature and history, between literary scholars and historians, has at times seemed to be widening. Drawing on essays written over the course of a distinguished teaching career, Lionel Gossman illuminates the many facets of the problematic relationship between history and literature and shows how each discipline both challenges and undermines the other's absolutist pretensions. In his first chapters Gossman underlines the historicity of the very category of literature and explores the political and social implications of the notions we have of it. Literature emerges as something whose meaning and content are not as self-evident as we think; instead, what is designated by the term literature is defined by a larger cultural structure that is constantly changing. Gossman then turns to the interweaving of history and literature in historical writing itself, showing how literary narratives, philosophy, and politics are inextricably bound up in the texts of two major Romantic historians, Augustin Thierry and Jules Michelet. Seeing ourselves in relation to our Romantic predecessors--set out sympathetically and fully here by Gossman--should cause us to reflect on the current disjunction between literature and ...

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ISBN10: 0674068157, ISBN13: 9780674068155, [publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge] Hardcover First Edition An attractive first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in an alike dust-jacket; This book is a unique blend of history and literature. It traces the intertwined histories of both disciplines and how they have evolved over time. The author discusses how literature has helped to shape historical understanding and vice versa. By examining a wide range of examples, he makes a strong case for the importance of literature in historical research.; 8vo; 412 pages
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0674068157 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in an alike dust-jacket; This book is a unique blend of history and literature. It traces the intertwined histories of both disciplines and how they have evolved over time. The author discusses how literature has helped to shape historical understanding and vice versa. By examining a wide range of examples, he makes a strong case for the importance of literature in historical research.; 8vo; 412 pages . 1990. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674068157 9780674068155 [US]

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ISBN10: 0674068157, ISBN13: 9780674068155, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Hardcover 412 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). -- Very good and clean exemplar. -- In our world of sophisticated literary theory and cliometrics, the gap between literature and history, between literary scholars and historians, has at times seemed to be widening. Drawing on essays written over the course of a distinguished teaching career, Lionel Gossman illuminates the many facets of the problematic relationship between history and literature and shows how each discipline both challenges and undermines the other’s absolutist pretensions. -- In his first chapters Gossman underlines the historicity of the very category of literature and explores the political and social implications of the notions we have of it. Literature emerges as something whose meaning and content are not as self-evident as we think; instead, what is designated by the term literature is defined by a larger cultural structure that is constantly changing. Gossman then turns to the interweaving of history and literature in historical writing itself, showing how literary narratives, philosophy, and politics are inextricably bound up in the texts of two major Romantic ...
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