Author: Cook, Albert
Title: History / Writing
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1990). Reprint, orig.cloth. 24x15cm, x, 275 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Encompassing Instances: The Problematic Emergence of History Writing as a Separate Genre; Particular & General in Thucydides; Reference & Rhetoric in Historiography (Gibbon); Scale, Psychological Stereotyping, &Style in Tacitus' Annals; Temporalizing the Abstraction of Indeterminacy: Machiavelli & Guicciardini; The Crosscurrents of Time: Burckhardt & Michelet; Strategies of Inclusion: The Contractions & Expansions of Biblical History; The New Testament in its Historiographic Dimension; The Implications of Scope: Totalizing Explanations in History; The Strength of Partial Purchases: Kinds of Synecdoche in Modern History Writing.

Keywords: Historiography, History Writing, Literary Criticism, , , , , ,