Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention

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Jaume Aurell

Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies

From Documentation to Intervention

Jaume Aurell

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English

Routledge
11 August 2015

Historiography; Social & cultural history

Series: Routledge Approaches to History

"E. H. Carr wrote, ""study the historian before you begin to study the facts."" This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary studies on autobiography with theories of history, it provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the autobiographies of the most outstanding historians, from the classic texts by Giambattista Vico, Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams, to the Annales historians such as Fernand Braudel, Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, to Marxist historians such as Eric Hobsbawm and Annie Kriegel, to postmodern historians such as Carolyn Steedman, Robert A. Rosenstone, Carlos Eire, Luisa Passerini, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Gerda Lerner and Sheila Fitzpatrick, and to ""interventional"" historians such as Geoff Eley, Jill Ker Conway, Natalie Davis and Gabrielle Spiegel. Using a comparative approach to these texts, this book identifies six historical-autobiographical styles: humanistic, biographic, ego-historical, monographic, postmodern, and interventional. By privileging historians' autobiographies, this book proposes a renewed history of historiography, one that engages the theoretical evolution of the discipline, the way history has been interpreted by historians, and the currents of thought and ideologies that have dominated and influenced its writing in the 20th and 21st centuries."

By: Jaume Aurell
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 15
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.150kg
ISBN: 9781138934405
ISBN 10: 1138934402
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 11 August 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. The Humanistic Style: On the Nature of History 2. The Biographical Approach: Historians Describing the Self 3. Autobiography as Scholarship: French Ego-histoire 4. Autobiography as History: The Monographic Approach to the Self 5. Postmodernism and the Self: Autobiography as Poetry 6. Autobiography as Historiography: The Interventional Mode. Conclusions.

Jaume Aurell is Associate Professor at the Department of History at the University of Navarra (Spain). He is the author of Authoring the Past. History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia (Chicago, 2012).

Reviews for Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention

The project that Aurell has undertaken here is an interesting and important one, concerned as it is with exploring the relationship between the changing ways in which historians have written about their lives and the developments within history as a discipline. The emphasis on autobiography as a form of historiography adds something useful and new to this whole discussion, by turning the attention of readers to the different kinds of historical inquiry and approach that different autobiographies contain. It complements the insistence that in writing their autobiographies, historians are engaged in a negotiation with history that subverts and complements traditional monographs, posits the `subjective' as an effective form of knowledge and acknowledges the constructed nature of the text (259). -Barbara Caine, University of Hawai'i Press