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Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

by HaydenWhite (Author)

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    Paperback 1975

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Synopsis

In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an appropriate historical explanation should be.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 01 Aug 1975
ISBN 10: 0801817617
ISBN 13: 9780801817618

Media Reviews
Metahistory is something more than a study of philosophies of history (although it is that too, and no doubt the most important work in the field since Collingwood): it is also a methodological manifesto, a more sustained argument for a deep-figural hermeneutic than has been worked out anywhere before now. Diacritics This is a daring, ingenious... tour de force. White has produced a profoundly original 'critique of historical reason.'. American Historical Review A book that will simply have to be reckoned with by all historians who have the slightest interest in the genesis and forms of historical narrative. Journal of Modern History