'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past
Author:   Beverley Southgate
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   154
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
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Author:   Beverley Southgate
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780367738266


ISBN 10:   0367738260
Pages:   154
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and ethical history. 3. Marcel Proust (1871-1927) and the recovery of ‘lost time’. 4. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) and ‘an entirely new genre’. 5. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and ‘history as it is lived’. 6. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) and ‘a new type of history’. 7. Penelope Lively (born 1933) and history as ‘a construct of the human intellect’. 8. James Hamilton-Paterson (born 1941) and blundering about in the past ‘with fading maps’. 9. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index

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Beverley Southgate has always sought to open up 'conventional' histories to new possibilities informed by radical ethico-political considerations, and here we see him at his very best... Keith Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theory, University of Chichester, UK


""Beverley Southgate has always sought to open up 'conventional' histories to new possibilities informed by radical ethico-political considerations, and here we see him at his very best..."" Keith Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theory, University of Chichester, UK


Beverley Southgate has always sought to open up 'conventional' histories to new possibilities informed by radical ethico-political considerations, and here we see him at his very best... Keith Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theory, University of Chichester, UK


"""Beverley Southgate has always sought to open up 'conventional' histories to new possibilities informed by radical ethico-political considerations, and here we see him at his very best..."" Keith Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theory, University of Chichester, UK"


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Beverley Southgate is Reader Emeritus in History of Ideas at the University of Hertfordshire. In addition to numerous articles, his publications include History: What & Why?; Why Bother with History?; Postmodernism in History; What is History For?; History Meets Fiction; Contentment in Contention: Acceptance versus Aspiration.

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