| Description |
viii, 258 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Selected references": pages 241-248. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Perspectives open: Voltaire shatters tradition -- Herder and Goethe: the living past -- Gibbon, Vico, and the masses -- pt. 2. Fulfillment: Fascination of origins: Niebuhr, Otfried Müller -- Romantic garb: Chateaubriand, Scott, Thierry, Carlyle -- Resurrection of the past: Michelet -- History as art: Renan, Burckhard, Green -- pt. 3. Toward a new synthesis: History as science -- Twentieth-century thought in search of a historian. |
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Literature and history.
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Literature and history. |
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Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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Geschiedschrijving. |
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Letterkunde. |
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Voltaire, 1694-1778. |
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Littérature et histoire. |
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Historiographie. |
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