The rhetoric of literary realism in Leopold von Ranke's historiography. From: CLIO | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Maurer, Kathrin | COPYRIGHT 2006 Indiana University, Purdue University of Fort Wayne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"Leopold von Ranke is the representative of the age which instituted the modern study of history. He taught it to be critical, to be colorless, and to be new." (1) Such attributions as this one, by John Emerich Acton in his Lectures on Modern History, reflect the high esteem in which the Cambridge School of historians held Leopold von Ranke during the second half of the nineteenth century. Even in today's academic landscape, Ranke is widely considered the central figure for the mod...

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