''A New Type of History'' - Fictional Proposals for Dealing With the Past

List 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

About the author

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.

Summary

Linking fiction with history and historical theory, 'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists who have criticized scientifically based history and proposed alternative ways of approaching the past: more subjective and personal, colourful and

Product details

• Authors: Beverley Southgate, Beverley (University of Hertfordshire Southgate, Southgate Beverley
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367738266
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73826-6
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Routledge Approaches to History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism