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Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K. Kaplan in his Michelet’s Poetic Vision (1977), has been revised by the translator for this volume.
One of the greatest Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavour among the positivist historians who came after him and who regarded his work with disdain as "literature." In the 1920s and 30s, however, he began to be rediscovered and rehabilitated by the members of the influential Annales school. The objects of Michelet’s interest—living conditions, popular mentalities, laws and the arts, the historian’s relation to the objects of his study, no less than political history—have since come to occupy a central place in modern historical research.
A free online-only supplement contains an essay on Michelet by John Stuart Mill from the Edinburgh Review (January 1844) and several studies of Michelet by Lionel Gossman.
One of the greatest Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavour among the positivist historians who came after him and who regarded his work with disdain as "literature." In the 1920s and 30s, however, he began to be rediscovered and rehabilitated by the members of the influential Annales school. The objects of Michelet’s interest—living conditions, popular mentalities, laws and the arts, the historian’s relation to the objects of his study, no less than political history—have since come to occupy a central place in modern historical research.
A free online-only supplement contains an essay on Michelet by John Stuart Mill from the Edinburgh Review (January 1844) and several studies of Michelet by Lionel Gossman.
Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K...
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Flora Kimmich translates from French and German. Her translation of Gustav Droysen’s classic History of Alexander the Great—the first into English—was published in 2012 by the American Philosophical Society. Flora is currently translating Friedrich Schiller's drama Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa for OBP.
Lionel Gossman, M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages emeritus at Princeton University, is the author of several books and many articles on historians and historiography, including three books published by OBP: Brownshirt Princess: A Study of the 'Nazi Conscience', The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler and edited and translated The End and the Beginning: The Book of My Life by Hermynia Zur Mühlen.
Edward K. Kaplan is Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities at Brandeis University. He is the author of Michelet's Poetic Vision (1977) and Mother Death, selected passages from Michelet's Journal in English translation (1984), and the editor of L’Insecte and L’Oiseau in Paul Viallaneix’s 21- volume edition of Michelet’s Oeuvres complètes. He has also published translations of Baudelaire and influential studies of the modern Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel.
Lionel Gossman, M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages emeritus at Princeton University, is the author of several books and many articles on historians and historiography, including three books published by OBP: Brownshirt Princess: A Study of the 'Nazi Conscience', The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler and edited and translated The End and the Beginning: The Book of My Life by Hermynia Zur Mühlen.
Edward K. Kaplan is Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities at Brandeis University. He is the author of Michelet's Poetic Vision (1977) and Mother Death, selected passages from Michelet's Journal in English translation (1984), and the editor of L’Insecte and L’Oiseau in Paul Viallaneix’s 21- volume edition of Michelet’s Oeuvres complètes. He has also published translations of Baudelaire and influential studies of the modern Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel.
Flora Kimmich translates from French and German. Her translation of Gustav Droysen’s classic History of Alexander the Great—the first into English—was published in 2012 by the American Philosophical Society. Flora is currently translating Friedrich Schiller's drama Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa fo...
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