Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7797155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo0hn S Nelson, Jo hn S Nelson, Hayden V White |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74 |
| Publication date | 1975-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Metahistory: The historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe., Hayden White, 1973 |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2504605 |
| OpenAlex | W2101949838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. This latent poetic and linguistic content - which White dubs the metahistorical element - essentially serves as a paradigm for what an appropriate historical explanation should be. To support his thesis, White analyzes the complex writing styles of historians like Michelet, Ranke, Tocqueville, and Burckhardt, and philosophers of history such as Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Croce. The first work in the history of historiography to concentrate on historical writing as writing, Metahistory sets out to deprive history of its status as a bedrock of factual truth, to redeem narrative as the substance of historicality, and to identify the extent to which any distinction between history and ideology on the basis of the presumed scientificity of the former is spurious. This fortieth-anniversary edition includes a new preface in which White explains his motivation for writing Metahistory and discusses how reactions to the book informed his later writing. In a new foreword, Michael S. Roth, a former student of White's and the current president of Wesleyan University, reflects on the significance of the book across a broad range of fields, including history, literary theory, and philosophy. This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study
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Correlates of Objective Historiography
Hybrid variations on a documentary theme
Journalism and Literature in the Egyptian Revolution of 1882
Imagen, representación y vías de acceso al pasado
Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected
La Historia, la Nación y después
Linguagem, sentido e contexto
Euclides da Cunha e o bicentenário da imprensa
La historia subsumida bajo el concepto general del arte
Laughing Out of Place
The Uses of Memory
Critical heritage studies and the legacies of the late-twentieth century heritage canon
Reassembling Weber to reveal the-past-as-history in management and organization studies
Understanding the rift, the (still) uneasy bedfellows of History and Organization Studies
Femmes Fatales in Finance, or Women and the City
CMS
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Five Part Invention
La satire et l’épître
Entre Casandra y Clío
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The real and the imaginary
Hans Küng's historical paradigm for postmodern theology
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Debussy and Recollection
The Subterranean Performance of History between Harlem and Rome in William Demby's The Catacombs
How come you ain't got it
Feeling the trouble
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Introduction
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The Metaphorical Imperative
Catastrophic Cartographies
Fortunate Travelers
Turkish Dogs
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Exiled from history
Governance, Sovereignty and Profane Hope in a Globalised Catastrophe-World
From Words to Worldview
Cognitive Literary Historicism
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Historical Discourse and Narrativity
Functions after Propp
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Edible Revolutionaries
Narratives of Catastrophe in the Early Modern Period
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The Curse of Performance
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Hayden White's Philosophical History
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From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd
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History, Self Interest, and Polyphony
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Geographical Rhetoric
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |