Abstract
In postmodernist theory, historical writing has become an important object of reflection and concern. Recent work emphasizes histories as texts, as literary artefacts created by historians within linguistic, institutional and cultural conventions. In this essay, we investigate the uses of metaphor in a particular English tradition of reflection on history, historical truth and the writing of history. We develop literary critical analysis of metaphor in texts by Butterfield, Oakeshott, Carr, Elton and Jenkins. The metaphors used in many of these texts are frequently gendered and sexual, figuring the historian as male and the past as female.
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