Application of linguistic and literary theories to historical understanding has not been limited to the twentieth century, although their utility became more contentious as that century wore on. The emergence of modern historical consciousness, according to Hayden White among others, can be identified most clearly in distinctive new forms of historical writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Modern Western historical thought has shown increasing concern with the complexity of language in two ways: in the study of past linguistic usages, with particular attention to uncovering the meanings of terms and texts in their specific historical contexts; and in the study of how historians write, how they produce narratives of the past, and how they deploy the languages of their own cultures. I will discuss an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in historical thought in western Europe and North America, where interest in the nature of texts and in the writing of history has figured prominently in historical investigations.
Application of linguistic and literary theories to historical understanding has not been limited to the twentieth century, although their utility became more contentious as that century wore on. The emergence of modern historical consciousness, according to Hayden White among others, can be identified most clearly in distinctive new forms of historical writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Modern Western historical thought has shown increasing concern with the complexity of language in two ways: in the study of past linguistic usages, with particular attention to uncovering the meanings of terms and texts in their specific historical contexts; and in the study of how historians write, how they produce narratives of the past, and how they deploy the languages of their own cultures. I will discuss an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in historical thought in western Europe and North America, where interest in the nature of texts and in the writing of history has figured prominently in historical investigations.
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