Stories in History

Cultural Narratives in Recent Works in European History

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8045883
AutoresSarah Maza (Northwestern University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen101
Número5
Páginas1493-1515
Fecha de publicación1996-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1086/ahr/101.5.1493
OpenAlexW2004985878
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24

STORYTELLING, or in academic parlance narrative, has returned to the historical discipline with a vengeance. The current of was prophesied some seventeen years ago in an article of that title by Lawrence Stone, who accurately predicted the end of the hegemony of structural, material-determinist, and quantitative approaches to history.' Stone's famous piece was somewhat confusing as to what form this revival was going to take, and understandably so, given the many different guises in history has indeed adopted since the late 1970s. The return of narrative has influenced, for instance, metahistorical reflections on historical writing by the likes of Hayden White.2 The rise of microhistory has given social historians license to recount the lives of the humble and obscure, in a form attractive to undergraduates and lay readers, at the same time as biographies of monarchs and military leaders have fallen out of fashion.3 Stories are currently being used to illuminate intimate, even unconscious, levels of past lives under the

Anecdote · Historiography · Microhistory · White (mutation · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy, History, and Historiography