Background
Gossman, Lionel was born on May 31, 1929 in Glasgow, Scotland. Came to the United States, 1958. Son of Norman and Sarah (Gold) Gossman.
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In our world of sophisticated literary theory and cliometrics, the gap between literature and history, between literary scholars and historians, has at times seemed to be widening. Drawing on essays written over the course of a distinguished teaching career, Lionel Gossman illuminates the many facets of the problematic relationship between history and literature and shows how each discipline both challenges and undermines the other's absolutist pretensions. In his first chapters Gossman underlines the historicity of the very category of literature and explores the political and social implications of the notions we have of it. Literature emerges as something whose meaning and content are not as self-evident as we think; instead, what is designated by the term literature is defined by a larger cultural structure that is constantly changing. Gossman then turns to the interweaving of history and literature in historical writing itself, showing how literary narratives, philosophy, and politics are inextricably bound up in the texts of two major Romantic historians, Augustin Thierry and Jules Michelet. Seeing ourselves in relation to our Romantic predecessors--set out sympathetically and fully here by Gossman--should cause us to reflect on the current disjunction between literature and history and to try to imagine new ways in which one practice may assist and enrich the other. The final chapters deal directly with the question of the relationship between history and literature, both historically and as a contemporary problem. The last essay in particular addresses the twin issues of the place of narrative in historiography and the alleged incommensurability of historical narratives. Gossman's detailed inquiries into the work of the Romantic historians and his thoughtful reflections on his own assumptions and practices as a scholar exemplify the highest ideals of humanistic scholarship. This eloquent and erudite work challenges us to rethink our notions about literature and history while enriching our understanding of both disciplines.
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("Mr. Gossman has chosen as a basis for his study five pla...)
"Mr. Gossman has chosen as a basis for his study five plays: Amphitryon, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, Le Tartuffe, and George Dandin. Each of these plays is subjected to analysis in a separate chapter. Mr. Gossman then concludes his work with two long and very inclusive chapters, "Moliere and His Own Time" and "After Moliere." Men and Masks is a well-written and provocative book, and Mr. Gossman is a critic of considerable subtlety and intuition." -- Renaissance News
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This is a Print-On-Demand publication. Though Theodor Mommsen was probably unaware of it, from the time of the first appearance of his influential and successful Romische Geschichte (1854), he was the object of the passionate and enduring hatred of an obscure Swiss philologist in the provincial city of Basle. Johann Jacob Bachofen is still not well known in the English-speaking world. He receives a brief mention in most histories of anthropology for his contribution to the popular 19th-cent. theory of matriarchy, and his studies of relations in matrilinear societies. Classical scholars know of Bachofen s original contributions to the study of Greek myth and tragedy through George Thomson, whose interpretation of Athenian tragedy owes much to Bachofen.
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Gossman, Lionel was born on May 31, 1929 in Glasgow, Scotland. Came to the United States, 1958. Son of Norman and Sarah (Gold) Gossman.
Master of Arts, Glasgow University, 1951. D. Phil., Oxford University, 1958.
Assistant lecturer, U. Glasgow, 1957-1958; assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1958-1962; associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1962-1966; professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1966-1976; professor, Princeton University, New Jersey, since 1976. Consultant Ford, Foundation, 1966-1968, Social Science Research Council, 1977-1982.
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Married Eva R. Reinitz, March 7, 1963. 1 child, Janice Naomi.