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Narrating the past = historiography, memory and the contemporary novel /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narrating the past/ Alan Robinson.
Reminder of title:	historiography, memory and the contemporary novel /
Author:	Robinson, Alan,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Notes:	Includes index.
Subject:	Fiction - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230316744
ISBN:	9780230316744 (electronic bk.)

Narrating the past = historiography, memory and the contemporary novel /
Robinson, Alan,1957-

Narrating the pasthistoriography, memory and the contemporary novel /[electronic resource] :Alan Robinson. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource.

Includes index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND FICTION -- The Narrative Turn in History� -- The Historical Turn in Fiction -- PART II: ISSUES IN PRACTICE -- History, Life-Writing and Epistemology� -- National Stories� -- Present Pasts in Neo-Victorian Fiction� -- Gothic Afterlives� -- After the Event -- Index --.

Interest in the narrative representation of the past, in both historiography and historical fiction, has mushroomed since the 1960s. But discussions among historians and literary scholars have often produced more heat than light. To remedy this situation, this study clarifies theoretical and methodological issues in making sense of the past which all forms of historical narrative share, tracing systematic connections between historiography, historical novels and life-writing. It differs from other criticism of historical fiction, which usually divides the genre into thematic or formal categories, in focusing on the explicit or implicit historiographical assumptions of historical novelists. In other words, it approaches historical fiction as a form of history in its own right, which confronts similar cognitive and imaginative challenges to those faced by historians. This innovative framework underpins substantial new interpretations of significant recent novels (including works by Pat Barker, Margaret Atwood,�Salman Rushdie, John Fowles, A.S. Byatt and Sarah Waters)�and broader discussion of a range of related fiction.

ISBN: 9780230316744 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613317858

Source: 373475Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Fiction
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN3343 / .R6 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 809.3/81

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