is it more common for historians to refer to the literary criticism when they work in earlier periods? (i.e. earlier than 19th/20th/21st century)
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @carometonym, @susandamussen ja
& what kinds of questions do you ask when you're reading a literary text as a historian?
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I think (though this is undoubtedly oversimplified) I’m less interested in the text qua text, but think of it as another piece of evidence. As with all evidence, I read critically - for genre, audience, purpose, assumptions, silences, etc. - to put it in dialogue/1
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With other evidence. How does a text relate to the society in which it’s written? I ask historical questions, not literary ones. Who are the people? Who has power? Why these people, here? What changes, why? There’s overlap, but no one would ever mistake me for a lit scholar.
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This is such a great discussion. What’s striking about
@susandamussen’s questions here is that a lot of lit people would want to ask them too.1 vastaus 0 uudelleentwiittausta 8 tykkäystä -
Yes we would and do.
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That’s why I said it was a vast oversimplification! But when I read your work, or Kim’s, or Fran Dolan that we’re approaching things from a different angle. It’s hard to pinpoint. Been thinking about this a lot trying to think through why E M historians do so little re race.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @susandamussen, @Elysabethgrace ja
Isn’t it because they don’t count our evidence as evidence? And so they can now claim that Black people were in early modern England because a historian now says they’re were when Imtiaz Habib had already done that work years earlier?
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @DrDadabhoy, @Elysabethgrace ja
Heh, don't think they pay attention just because I say so! The invisibility of POC in England for 17th c historians makes me nuts.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @susandamussen, @DrDadabhoy ja
(Actually, some of them have not even figured out gender. We have a LONG way to go...)
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