Histories of the Self : Personal Narratives and Historical Practice
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 'Things happen in your life, you see, you never know what is going to happen' -- Terminology -- The turn to the personal -- Archives -- Structure of the book --...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Milton : Routledge,
2018
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| Schlagworte: | Letters Letter writing History-Methodology Diaries Autobiography Oral history |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (183 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 'Things happen in your life, you see, you never know what is going to happen' -- Terminology -- The turn to the personal -- Archives -- Structure of the book -- Notes -- 2. Historians' uses of letters -- Reading letters for fact -- Letter writing as a social and cultural practice: the case of war letters -- Gender and the letter -- Epistolary constructions of the self -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Historians and the diary -- The diarist as observer -- The diary as a 'technology of the self' -- Gender and the diary: the making of masculinity -- Contradictions and incoherence -- The diary and the psyche -- The diary and privacy -- The public and the private -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Autobiography, memoir and the historian -- Reading memoir for fact -- Reading for subjectivity -- Gendered subjectivities and models of autobiography -- The present meets the past -- Audience -- Rethinking the past for the present -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Oral history and historical practice -- Reliability and the cultural turn -- Public discourse and personal recall -- Personal memory and popular culture -- Evasions and silences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Representativeness -- Historians and the sample -- Cultural criteria of selection -- The luminosity of the single case -- The 'exceptional normal' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7. Conclusion -- Authenticity -- Multiple genres -- Alternative genres and new directions -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (183 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780429945298 0429945299 9780415576192 0415576199 |