
History Meets Fiction
Beverley Southgate(Author)
Longman (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4082-2012-2 (ISBN)
Description
The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have been seen as mutually exclusive opposites. In this thought-provoking and original study, Beverly Southgate investigates the truth behind fiction and the fact behind history and shows that the culmination of 20 years of historical theorising may well be that history meets fiction at a point where the two become indistinguishable.
History Meets Fiction provides a fascinating account of the relationship between history and fiction, a debate fast becoming central to the study of historical theory. It uses extracts and examples from well-known works of fiction to illustrate and reinforce points within the text, and Southgate is an engaging and accessible writer who has the rare ability to present this complex material with clarity.
History Meets Fiction provides a fascinating account of the relationship between history and fiction, a debate fast becoming central to the study of historical theory. It uses extracts and examples from well-known works of fiction to illustrate and reinforce points within the text, and Southgate is an engaging and accessible writer who has the rare ability to present this complex material with clarity.
Reviews / Votes
'This is a brilliantly illuminating and provocatively engaged study of those massively porous borderlands between history/fiction and fiction/history.'Keith Jenkins, University of Chichester, UK
'A wide-ranging and insightful analysis of the richly controversial relationship between history and fiction, Southgate's study demonstrates again and again that historical novelists and dramatists have been far more adept at communicating issues of objectivity, memory, relativism and identity than ivory-tower historical theorists. Highly recommended.'
Jennifer Smyth, University of Warwick, UK
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4082-2012-2 (9781408220122)
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Person
Reader Emeritus in the History of Ideas, University of Hertfordshire
Content
Preface
Chapter 1: History and Fiction
Chapter 2: History: Fact or Fiction?
Chapter 3: Dryasdust and Co.: Some Fictional Representations of Historians
Chapter 4: Fiction, History, and Memory
Chapter 5: Fiction, History, and Ethics
Chapter 6: Fiction, History, and Identity
Chapter 7: Fiction and the Functions of History
Chapter 8: Endings
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
Chapter 1: History and Fiction
Chapter 2: History: Fact or Fiction?
Chapter 3: Dryasdust and Co.: Some Fictional Representations of Historians
Chapter 4: Fiction, History, and Memory
Chapter 5: Fiction, History, and Ethics
Chapter 6: Fiction, History, and Identity
Chapter 7: Fiction and the Functions of History
Chapter 8: Endings
Postscript
Bibliography
Index