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Author:   Elise Garritzen
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2023 ed.
Weight:   0.657kg
ISBN:  

9783031284601

ISBN 10:   3031284607
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   09 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents 1.       Introduction: From Rhetorical Diarrhea to a Branch of Science. Impersonal Science and Scholarly Persona. Personae in Books. Persona of an English Historian. A Composite Persona: A Historian, an Educator, an Entrepreneur, and a Middle-Class Man. Non-Expert Commentators on the Persona. Persona in Paratexts. Chapter Outline. References. Part I: Historians as Scholars. 2.     Educated and Well-Connected Oxbridge Men. Anatomy of a Title Page in a History Book. Academic Degree: Non-Expert Skills and Male Sociability. Historians’ Careers and Three Possible Personae. Questioning the Alternate Paths to Expertise in History. Gendered Personae?. References. 3.     Champions of a Virtuous Historian. Acceptable Hero-Worship. The Founder of the Oxford School Commendable Constitutional Historian. Borrowing Virtuosity in Paratexts. Hero-Worship and its Epistemic Consequences. The Declining Aura of a Heroic Historian. References. 4.     Almost Antiquaries. Completeness: Generalizations or Particularities. Antiquarianism, History, and the Invisible Boundary. Taking a Distance from Antiquarianism.. Big Books and the New Geographies of Reading. References. Part II: Historians as Educators. 5.     Teachers with Scientific Credentials. Popular, Small, or Something Else?. Virtuosity of Educational Histories. Innovativeness and its Limits. Pedagogical Visions. References. 6.     Mentors of Scientific History. The Bottom of the Page and Resolving Pedagogical Anxieties. Introducing the Persona to Children. A Model Persona in the Big Histories. Imperfections in the Persona. An Ethical, Fair, and Polite Persona. Non-Teachable Virtues and the Sacred Band of Scientific Historians. References. 7.     From Public Intellectuals to Radicalized Historians. From Impartial Knowledge to Political Propaganda. Mary Hickson and Insistence on Impartiality. Alice Stopford Green and the Persona of a Partisan Historian. References. Part III: Historians as Entrepreneurs. 8.     Commercial but Scholarly Dignified Historians. Entrepreneurial Persona. History Books as Dignified Commodities. References. 9.     Sincere and Insincere Advertisers. Advertising and Historians’ Moral Ambivalence. Earnestness as a Marketing Strategy. Fluidity of Honesty. References. 10.        The Air of a Dignified Historian. Dressing up the Persona. Paratextual Design, the Persona, and Multiple Audiences. Quality Marks the Persona. References. 11.        Conclusion: Heavenly Historians and Their Persona. References.  

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Elise Garritzen is an Academy of Finland researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research revolves around European historiography, cultural history, and book history.

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