Early Modern Genres of History (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Johnsen, Emil Nicklas; Stovner, Ina Louise

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together an international group of literary scholars, intellectual historians, and cultural historians, this book discusses history in its various forms, either as texts or images in the early modern period (1500-1800).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040037843
• Artikelnr.: 70468219

Autorenporträt

Emil Nicklas Johnsen, PhD History of Ideas, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. Johnsen has published extensively in Nordic intellectual history, with particular interest in historiography and the dynamics of the public sphere. In addition, he has long experience as editor in Arr. Idéhistorisk tidsskrift (Journal of the History of Ideas) and is currently writing the textbook Vestens idéhistorie fra 1800 til i dag. (History of Ideas in the Western World from 1800 until today). Ina Louise Stovner, PhD Cultural History, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. Stovner's research interests include topics within cultural history, understanding of history, and memory studies, and she has special expertise in visual sources 1750 to 1840. She has extensive teaching experience in cultural history and museology at UiO and several years of experience as a member of the editorial team in Tidsskrift for kulturforskning (Journal of Cultural Studies).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Early Modern Genres of History Part 1: Antiquarian and material negotiations 1. Antiquarian poetry and royal performance 2. "Compiled from original authors": on the status of compilers and compilation as historiographical practice in the eighteenth century 3. 'History from Marble': Church notes and the rise of epigraphy in early modern England Part 2: Visual understandings of history 4. History painting and/as genre 5. Constructing a moment in history. The tableau as a communicational mode and genre in the end of the 18^{th c}entury Part 3: Genres of history and the public sphere 6. Royal historiographer without the title. Niels Ditlev Riegels (1755-1802) and the role of historical genres in the 18th-century essay periodical press 7. From amusement to study ? Historical genres in the 18th-century essay periodical press 8. Court intrigues between public and secret history: Some 18th-century Danish solutions Part 4: Traveling historical genres 9. Historical transfers: Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi and the transformations of his late eighteenth-century histories of Denmark and Norway 10. 'For no other cause than the lack of writers': Travel knowledge and the preservation of memory 11. Histories from Barbary. Empirical and imperial aspirations in an eighteenth-century history 12. Between Vico and the Virgin: Image and genres of history in Lorenzo Boturini's Idea de una nueva historia general de América septentrional Part 5: Afterword 13. Afterword: Some reflections on genre in early modern Histories.