
Description
Is there any reason serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression? Even the most committed empiricists and postmodernists might achieve better results by thinking of writing as a craft, rather than a means of packaging research. This book gathers some of the most compelling efforts to make history writing eloquent, stirring, and memorable, demonstrating that even the most rigorous scholarship can take on a wide range of creative forms.
With selections from: Jonathan Spence, Simon Schama, Saidiya Hartman, Wendy Warren, Jill Lepore, Louis Masur, Jane Kamensky, and John Demos, among others.
Product Details
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Publish Date | February 18, 2020 |
Pages | 304 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780300239904 |
Dimensions | 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches | 0.9 pounds |
Reviews
"Seventeen excellent writers who are also distinguished scholars offer a spirited, entertaining, illuminating, thought-provoking, militantly readable, thoroughly persuasive, and much-needed reminder that history is a subgenre of nonfiction literature."-- Carlo Rotella, author of The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
"Our most engaging historians embrace the simplest of messages: show, don't tell. These imaginative essays, each a gem, remind us that writing is part of the art of interpreting the past."-- Peter C. Mancall, author of The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England
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