Literature & Fiction

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Hayden White — Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975

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In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an appropriate historical explanation should be.