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This holy hieroglyph: Providence and...

Boyd, Jonathan Tucker.

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This holy hieroglyph: Providence and historical consciousness in George Bancroft's historiography.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	This holy hieroglyph: Providence and historical consciousness in George Bancroft's historiography./
Author:	Boyd, Jonathan Tucker.
Description:	263 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1287.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-04A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9927027
ISBN:	0599267941

This holy hieroglyph: Providence and historical consciousness in George Bancroft's historiography.
Boyd, Jonathan Tucker.

This holy hieroglyph: Providence and historical consciousness in George Bancroft's historiography. - 263 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1287.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1999.

Providentialism---a consistent portrayal of divine sovereignty in history---characterizes much American historiography written before the late 1800s, and this dissertation opens a detailed examination of this major historical language. George Bancroft and his History of the United States provide the focus and main corpus of material for this study. My approach is intellectual-historical, and the parts of the dissertation revolve around areas of discourse in which providentialism operates.

ISBN: 0599267941Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

This holy hieroglyph: Providence and historical consciousness in George Bancroft's historiography.
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520 $a Providentialism---a consistent portrayal of divine sovereignty in history---characterizes much American historiography written before the late 1800s, and this dissertation opens a detailed examination of this major historical language. George Bancroft and his History of the United States provide the focus and main corpus of material for this study. My approach is intellectual-historical, and the parts of the dissertation revolve around areas of discourse in which providentialism operates.
520 $a First, considering theological discourse helps to define the contours of the nineteenth-century doctrine of providence. The concept of divine sovereignty organizes this definition, and I analyze its elements in interaction with theological, philosophical, and scientific ideas. A second key component---mystery---reveals a dynamic whereby providentialist thought is inevitably hermeneutic. Providence is not so much merely found in history as read there.
520 $a Turning to historiographical discourse, I offer not only a synthetic definition of historicism but also a sketch of its characteristics in Germany, with attention to the methodology and idealism of classical Historismus up to the early 1800s. A close reading of Bancroft's historiography follows, arguing that, far from being opposites, providentialism and historicism are profoundly interdependent within his historical consciousness.
520 $a Political discourse orients part 3 toward Bancroft's philosophies of constitution and national identity. His historiographical providentialism is integrated with each of the four pillars of his domestic political philosophy, as is his definition of nationalism, which a close reading shows to contain a tension between American nationalism and an internationalism bound together under divine providence.
520 $a A final chapter engages the paedagogical discourse of ten antebellum American history schoolbooks, which reveal an avowed subjectivity within providentialism. Here it is especially clear that providentialism is more importantly a mode of reader response than of historical explanation---a return to part I's definition of the hermeneutic imperative of reading history, "this holy hieroglyphic."
520 $a In a concluding Afterword, I extrapolate the discursive organization of the dissertation to include reflections on the current prospects---or lack thereof---for providentialisin within academic historical discourse. An appendix includes an overview of the publishing history of Bancroft's work and a table correlating passages across successive editions.
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