| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
History: concepts, theories and practice
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History: concepts, theories and practice.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands? How do novelists represent historians and history? The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have traditionally been seen as mutually exclusive opposites....Beverley Southgate untangles this knotty relationship, setting his discussion in a broad historical and philosophical context. Throughout, Southgate invokes a variety of writers to illuminate his arguments, from Dickens and Proust, through Virginia Woolf and Daphne du Maurier, to such contemporary novelists as Tim O'Brien, Penelope Lively, and Graham Swift"--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
History and fiction -- History : fact or fiction? -- Dryasdust and Co. : some fictional representations of historians -- Fiction, history, and memory -- Fiction, history, and ethics -- Fiction, history, and identity --Fiction and the functions of history -- Endings. |
| Subject |
Historiography -- Philosophy.
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Historiography -- Philosophy. |
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781408220122 paperback |
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1408220121 paperback |
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