Literary Historian

Definition: The literary historian is one who presents the material in a chronological and unbiased nature. In page 13, part five of the Haiman reading, it states that the literary historian, and not the statistician, should be the one to lay the ground work for the presentation method.

Example: In the reading it gives an example of what a literary historian should be responsible for, that is giving the reader a glimpse into the history of the times in which a movement took place in. "We should strive for movement studies which will preserve the idiom in which the actual movement was expressed" (page 13 Haiman)

In the text:

In the readings Haiman wrote about why the literary historian approach to rhetorical protest writings is important. He wrote in part 4, page 12, of the The rhetoric of historical movement reading that "the critic must judge the discourse in terms of the theories of rhetoric and public opinion indigenous to the times" (Haiman)