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What is intellectual history? It is the purpose of this volume to answer that question, and also to demonstrate how answering it is affected by its relations with other disciplines. The relationship between intellectual history and other disciplines matters fundamentally because intellectual history, rather more than is the case with many other branches of historical enquiry, is itself a supremely interdisciplinary enterprise. This volume demonstrates that intellectual history has pioneered and will continue to promote much interdisciplinary activity, both among historians themselves, and also in the practice of allied disciplines, especially in the congruent field of literary studies. It ought to come as no surprise, therefore, that several of the contributors to the present volume are scholars of English literature. As the chapter by Abigail Williams demonstrates, however, literary history has its own distinctive characteristics, which are allied to, but are not identical with, those attached to intellectual history.
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Young, B. (2006). introduction. In: Whatmore, R., Young, B. (eds) palgrave advances in intellectual history. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230204300_1
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