ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the various chapter of this book. This book presents a new theoretical context, one that privileges the intersection between historiography and literary studies, autobiography may also become, first, a valid though unconventional form of intellectual history and, second, a graphic way to reread the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries history of historiography. It considers another way to read contemporary historiographical evolution, from humanistic, biographic, ego-historical, monographic and postmodern to performative styles. For this reason, this study contributes to theories of both autobiography and the nature and writing of history. By analyzing how historians work and by viewing the genesis and development of their monographs, we understand more clearly both the position and responsibility of the writer who increasingly admits the futility of separating personal experience from intellectual activity. Historians' autobiographies serve as an appetizer, whetting the reader's appetite for the historical writings on which they are based.
