antiquarianism

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While the contextualist approach makes possible this detailed and rich type of understanding, there is a danger that contextualist historians might fall into the trap of antiquarianism.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Yet Sebald also extracts from this self-conscious antiquarianism something unaccountable: a mysterious contemporary stillness, an otherworldliness of the present.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

A recurrent theme is Dirda’s love of the dustier byways of antiquarianism and of the hours spent in used-book stores in pursuit of a rare find.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2015

As Prof. Andrew S. Dolkart, co-curator of “Saving Place” and director of Columbia University’s historic preservation program, puts it, “The exhibition shows that landmarking and preservation are not about antiquarianism or freezing the past.”

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2015

His vivacity relieved the drowsiness of mere antiquarianism.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac