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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historiography and Fiction
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Issues in Practice
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Back Matter
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'Alan Robinson's monograph, Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between theories of history and contemporary narrative fiction...In summary, Robinson's book is a theoretically sophisticated engagement with and intervention in the debates of the past forty years or so regarding the relationship between history and fiction. This is framed against innovative and thorough analyses of a selection of representative novels.' - Year's Work in English Studies
'Historical fiction evokes into virtual existence a former possible world, retrieving the past into the present. In explaining how it does this, Robinson argues for a renewed interest and appreciation of the imaginary presence of the past in history and memory and for greater understanding between historians and literary critics. A complex and ambitious scholarly project, Narrating the Past is important reading for cultural historians, historiographers and literary specialists.' - Jane Mattison, English Studies
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narrating the Past
Book Subtitle: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel
Authors: Alan Robinson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230316744
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23593-9Published: 04 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31413-3Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-31674-4Published: 04 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 226
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Historiography and Method, British and Irish Literature