Metahistory
Douban
ISBN: 9780801817618
author:
Hayden White
publishing house: Johns Hopkins University Press
publication date: 1975
-8
binding: Paperback
price: USD 29.00
number of pages: 464
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Hayden White
overview
In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be.
