Titlebook: Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England; Books, the Literary Elise Garritzen Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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Sincere and Insincere Advertiserstmost honesty. As a marketing ploy, this was questionable and drove some publishers into despair. Titles were another promotional paratext par excellence. Since titles had a different relationship with the text than prefaces had, historians were able to make concessions to honesty in their titular c

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The Air of a Dignified Historianthat represented their persona was dark, somber, and resisted the latest fashions. Indeed, as this chapter argues, there was a striking resemblance between the scientific histories and the three-piece-suit, the unofficial uniform of a Victorian middle-class man.

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tzen makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of scholarly personae and modern disciplines. The book offers a novel approach to the role which scholarly virtues held in the Victorian societ978-3-031-28463-2978-3-031-28461-8

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d moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly .What constitutes a historian? What skills and qualities should a historian cultivate? Who is entitled to define historians’ “physiognomy”? Victorians sought to answer these questions as history transformed from a Romantic literary pursuit

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Educated and Well-Connected Oxbridge Menmonies of historical expertise. By drawing distance to the sparseness of the title pages in amateur histories, they used this paratextual space to define the normative criteria for the scholarly persona. The statistical analysis of historians’ title pages shows how an ideal scientific historian was

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Champions of a Virtuous Historian persona. They selected William Stubbs for this purpose and turned his name into a . which served as a metaphor for epistemic and moral virtuosity and for exemplary scholarly conduct and collegiality. The heroization of Stubbs resembled scholarly hero worship, but historians were not the only ones w

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