LEADER 05034nam 22006975 450 001 9910739437503321 005 20251009082232.0 010 $a9783031284618 010 $a3031284615 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-28461-8 035 $a(CKB)27943617400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-28461-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30865413 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30865413 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927943617400041 100 $a20230808d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReimagining the Historian in Victorian England $eBooks, the Literary Marketplace, and the Scholarly Persona /$fby Elise Garritzen 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 390 p. 7 illus., 3 illus. in color.) 311 08$a9783031284601 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: From Rhetorical Diarrhea to a Branch of Science -- Part I. Historians as Scholars -- 2. Educated and Well-connected Oxbridge Men -- 3.Champions of a Virtuous Historian -- 4. Almost Antiquaries -- Part II. Historians as Educators -- 5. Teachers with Scientific Credentials -- 6. Mentors of the Scientific History -- 7. From Public Intellectuals to Radicalized Historians -- Part III. Historians as Entrepreneurs -- 8. Commercial but Scholarly Dignified Historians -- 9. Sincere and Insincere Advertisers -- 10. Air of a Dignified Historian -- 11. Conclusion: Heavenly Historians and their Persona. 330 $a?This amazing book shows how seemingly trivial things ? title pages, prefaces, and footnotes in Victorian history books ? can become fascinating source material in the hands of a talented scholar. With a characteristic mix of erudition and elegance, Elise Garritzen makes a case for paratexts serving as arenas for historians? collective self-fashioning in a culture where only few could derive scholarly authority from institutional affiliation. No one before has shown so convincingly that book history and the history of historiography have much to offer to each other.? ? Herman Paul, Leiden University What constitutes a historian? What skills and qualities should a historian cultivate? Who is entitled to define historians? ?physiognomy?? Victorians sought to answer these questions as history transformed from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century. This book offers a novel interpretation of this critical historiographical period by tracing how historians forged themselves a collective scholarly persona that legitimized their new disciplinary status. By combining historiography and book history, Elise Garritzen argues that historians appropriated titles, prefaces, footnotes, and other paratexts as an institutionalized space for fashioning the persona. Yet, historians did not have a monopoly on the persona as readers and reviewers offered their interpretations of the persona, and publishers influenced the paratextual presentation of the persona. By ascribing agency to paratexts and the literary marketplace, Garritzen makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of scholarly personae and modern disciplines. The book offers a novel approach to the role which scholarly virtues held in the Victorian society, the formation of scholarly communities, the commodification of knowledge, and the management of scientific reputations. It provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge, book history, and Victorian culture. Elise Garritzen is an Academy of Finland researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research revolves around European historiography, cultural history, and book history. 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aHistoriography 606 $aHistory$xMethodology 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aBooks$xHistory 606 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aHistoriography and Method 606 $aCultural History 606 $aHistory of the Book 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aHistoriography. 615 0$aHistory$xMethodology. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aBooks$xHistory. 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 14$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aHistoriography and Method. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aHistory of the Book. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 676 $a907.2022 676 $a907.2041 700 $aGarritzen$b Elise$01589053 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910739437503321 996 $aReimagining the Historian in Victorian England$93883286 997 $aUNINA