History as Romantic Art

By David Levin,

Book cover of History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman

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1 author picked History as Romantic Art as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

An old book, but still one of the best accounts of 19th-century American historical writing, showing how Romantic historians like William Prescott and Francis Parkman viewed history as a literary art. As Levin elegantly and lucidly demonstrates, these historians did not view themselves as mere chroniclers of fact but considered themselves artists whose purpose was to bring the past to life through the use of their own imagination. This was one of the first works of historiography that I read, and it is still a model to me of how to approach the subject.

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