000 03456nam a22004815i 4500
001 188251
003 IT-RoAPU
005 20250106150252.0
006 m|||||o||d||||||||
007 cr || ||||||||
008 240826t20131991txu fo d z eng d
020 _a9780292759794
_qPDF
024 7 _a10.7560/724679
_2doi
035 _a(DE-B1597)9780292759794
035 _a(DE-B1597)586912
035 _a(OCoLC)1280943115
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
_erda
072 7 _aBIO000000
_2bisacsh
082 0 4 _a970/.007202
_qOCoLC
_220/eng/20230216
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJacobs, Wilbur R.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFrancis Parkman, Historian as Hero :
_bThe Formative Years /
_cWilbur R. Jacobs.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c1991
300 _a1 online resource (255 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 0 _aAmerican Studies Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPreface --
_tPrologue --
_tPart One. The Hero-Historian Conquers Adversity --
_tPart Two. The Historian as Hero-Researcher --
_tPart Three. The Hero as Storyteller --
_tPart Four. The Hero-Historian5s Social Perspectives --
_tEpilogue: The Legend of the Hero-Historian --
_tAppendix: Parkman5s Commencement Oration, "Romance in America55 --
_tNotes --
_tBibliographical Note --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aA historian who lived the kind of history he wrote, Francis Parkman is a major—and controversial—figure in American historiography. His narrative style, while popular with readers wanting a "good story," has raised many questions with professional historians. Was Parkman writing history or historical fiction? Did he color historical figures with his own heroic self-image? Was his objectivity compromised by his "unbending, conservative, Brahmin" values? These are some of the many issues that Wilbur Jacobs treats in this thought-provoking study. Jacobs carefully considers the "apprenticeship" of Francis Parkman, first spent in facing the rigors of the Oregon Trail and later in struggling to write his histories despite a mysterious, frequently incapacitating illness. He shows how these events allowed Parkman to create a heroic self-image, which impelled his desire for fame as a historian and influenced his treatment of both the "noble" and the "savage" characters of his histories. In addition to assessing the influence of Parkman's development and personality on his histories, Jacobs comments on Parkman's relationship to basic social and cultural issues of the nineteenth century. These include the slavery question, Native American issues, expansion of the suffrage to new groups, including women, and anti-Catholicism.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
_2bisacsh
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/724679
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292759794
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292759794/original
942 _cEB
999 _c188251
_d188251