History Meets Fiction

Beverley Southgate (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2009
Longman (Verlag)
978-1-4082-2012-2 (ISBN)

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The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have been seen as mutually exclusive opposites. In this thought-provoking and original study, Beverly Southgate investigates the truth behind fiction and the fact behind history and shows that the culmination of 20 years of historical theorising may well be that history meets fiction at a point where the two become indistinguishable.

History Meets Fiction provides a fascinating account of the relationship between history and fiction, a debate fast becoming central to the study of historical theory. It uses extracts and examples from well-known works of fiction to illustrate and reinforce points within the text, and Southgate is an engaging and accessible writer who has the rare ability to present this complex material with clarity.

Reader Emeritus in the History of Ideas, University of Hertfordshire

Preface

Chapter 1: History and Fiction

Chapter 2: History: Fact or Fiction?

Chapter 3: Dryasdust and Co.: Some Fictional Representations of Historians

Chapter 4: Fiction, History, and Memory

Chapter 5: Fiction, History, and Ethics

Chapter 6: Fiction, History, and Identity

Chapter 7: Fiction and the Functions of History

Chapter 8: Endings

Postscript

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2009
Reihe/Serie	History: Concepts,Theories and Practice
Verlagsort	Harlow
Sprache	englisch
Maße	233 x 154 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4082-2012-1 / 1408220121
ISBN-13	978-1-4082-2012-2 / 9781408220122
Zustand	Neuware