Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel
Author:   A. Robinson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780230235939


Pages:   226
Publication Date:   04 October 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel


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In recent years controversy has surrounded the narrative turn in history and the historical turn in fiction. This book clarifies what is at stake, tracing connections between historiography and life-writing, arguing that the challenges posed in representing the past illuminate issues which are central to all literary narrative.

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Author:   A. Robinson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780230235939


ISBN 10:   023023593
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   04 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

'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


Author Information

ALAN ROBINSON is Professor of English at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Lancaster and Cologne and at all the German Swiss universities.

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