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Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination

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  • © 1990

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  1. Lee Horsley
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lee Horsley
      Pages 1-10

  3. Imagining History

    1. Imagining History

      • Lee Horsley
      Pages 11-44

  4. ‘The End of Clear Thinking and the Triumph of Irrationalism’: British Fiction, 1910–40

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-61
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    2. Collingwood and Waugh: The Philosopher’s Detective and Boot of the Beast

      • Lee Horsley
      Pages 62-89

    3. Irony as Historical Realism: Conrad’s Under Western Eyes

      • Lee Horsley
      Pages 90-122

    4. Jumping Overboard: Lawrence, Kangaroo, and the Retreat from History

      • Lee Horsley
      Pages 123-164

  5. All the King’s and President’s Men: Political Intellectuals in Postwar America

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-180
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    2. Tragic Knowledge and ‘the Earned Redemption’: The History Lesson of All the King’s Men

      • Lee Horsley
      Pages 181-216

    3. Watergate and After: The Good, the Bad and the Good as Gold

      • Lee Horsley
      Pages 217-253

  6. Concluding Note: ‘A Middle Way’

    1. Concluding Note: ‘A Middle Way’

      • Lee Horsley
      Pages 254-258

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 259-300
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This study gives insights into the process of "imagining history" and argues the case for a humanistic approach. It shows how writers have brought alive in their work an individual struggle to comprehend some of the most important political phenomena to the 2Oth century.

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