Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past

Introduction: Methods of Knowing

Kevin A. Morrison and Paelvi Rantala

Section One: Textual and Conceptual Approaches

1. Epic Posturing and Epic Entanglements: Historiography, Creative Inquiry, and the Writing of the Self in Boiardo, Montaigne, and Cervantes

Alani Hicks-Bartlett

2. "The Machine for Showing Desire": Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire

Catherine Phipps

3. Entwining Temporalities in Craig Williamson's The Complete Old English Poems

Elan Justice Pavlinich

Section Two: Material and Emotional Approaches

4. Filling in the Blanks: An Open Door Invitation to a Nineteenth-Century American Period Room

Kate Kramer

5. Scraps of History: Vernacular Archiving and Creative Composition

Ben Nadler

6. Tolkien, Cline, and the Quest for a Silmaril

Tom Ue and James Munday

Section Three: Experiential Approaches

7. Dreams, Historical Knowledge, and Death of a California Fisherwoman

Kevin A. Morrison

8. All Cops are Biased: Historiography as Detective Story

William G. Pooley

9. Sound Puppets: Using Sonic Nonfiction to Perform the Past

Diana Chester and Heidi Stalla

Section Four: Embodied Methodologies

10. Co-Imagining the History of a Village: Autoethnographer as Verbaliser of Experience-Based Knowledge

Jaana Kouri

11. My Writing Journey with the Webers

Paelvi Rantala

13. Knowing Hands: Using Tactile Research Methods in Researching and Writing the History of Design

Grace Lees-Maffei