History as an art of memory / Patrick H. Hutton.

Author/creator Hutton, Patrick H.
Format Book
Publication Info[Burlington, Vt.] : University of Vermont ; Hanover : University Press of New England, ©1993.
Descriptionxxv, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Placing memory in contemporary historiography -- The art of memory reconceived : from Renaissance rhetoric to Giambattista Vico's historicism -- William Wordsworth and Sigmund Freud : the search for the self historicized -- Maurice Halbwachs as historian of collective memory -- Philippe Ariès : between tradition and history -- Michel Foucault : history as counter-memory -- The role of memory in the historiography of the French Revolution -- History at the crossroads of memory.
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Local noteLittle-327779--305131025795+
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-223) and index.
LCCN 93017246
ISBN0874516315 (alk. paper)
ISBN0874516374 (pbk. : alk. paper)