A history of the history essay: heritages, habits and hindrances
Adrian Jones
AbstractWhy are history essays so po-faced? Standard agendas for summon advanced-level students to account some past something in particularly sober, grounded and disinterested ways. This essay about the odd of explores how this model arose, its consequences. My focus is on essay’s unusual insistence forays into things interest erects forms academic power that narrow student self-expression. Essays emerged, evolved thrived four Augustan-patrician worlds: Imperial Rome, Northern Renaissance, Enlightenment coffeehouses salons, and, last century half, serried wobbly tables exams. The genteel equanimities may now rebuff other immersive possibilities perform learning mass-participation era higher education. If still thrive among emerging e-platforms expression, historians edu...
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