Hayden White
American historian
Hayden V. White was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Wikipedia
Born: July 12, 1928, Martin, TN
Died: March 5, 2018 (age 89 years), Santa Cruz, CA
Influenced by: Roland Barthes, Reinhart Koselleck, Northrop Frye, and more
Doctoral students: Nancy Struever
Main interests: Metahistory
Notable ideas: Historiophoty; metahistorical trope;
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