By Professor Maurice H. Mandelbaum
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In other cases, where one is not dealing with swift, revolutionary changes, but with new emphases and a new tone, the influence of individuals may also be strong, but the literary historian will be more apt to look for the explanation of such changes in the intellectual and social 1ife of the period with which he is concerned. This point need not be labored : The literary historian does not merely depict the changes he finds, but seeks to account for them in terms of the different influences that have effectively shaped the works and have channeled the in fluences of the authors with whom he has chosen to deal.
While these connections between general history and special his tories should not be underestimated, it remains true-as I have remarked-tha t historians of literature, of painting, of science, or of philosophy are not usually regarded as "historians," and their aca demic posts more often than not are outside departments of history. I t is not difficult to understand why this should be the case. A his torian of literature, for example, will almost always have to function as a critic as well as a historian, and he may therefore find a more natural place for himself among those who are concerned with the practice and theory of criticism, with hermeneutics, stylistics, and linguistics than among those whose interests are more purely histori cal, focusing primarily on the nature and changes wi thin a society.
One cannot, for example, understand some changes tha t take place in the arts without finding in them reflections of how people reacted to even ts that occurred in their lives; nor can one always understand changes in the position of artists or of scientists in their societies without understanding changes in the institutional structure of those societies. Thus, the special historian often needs basic help from the general historian if he is to understand the materials with which it is his task to deal; and the general historian may derive help from the special historian in coming to understand how people viewed the events of their time, and how, for example, the development of sci ence and technology paved the way for major forms of economic change.