Histories of the Self: Personal Narratives and Historical Practice

by Penny Summerfield

Histories of the Self interrogates historians' work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past.

Historians are interested as never before in how people thought and felt about their lives. This turn to the personal has focused attention on the capacity of subjective records to illuminate both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415576180
• ISBN13: 9780415576185
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages