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Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past brings together researchers in a wide array of disciplines who employ imagination, creativity, or fiction in their own historical scholarship or who analyze the use of imagination, creativity, or fiction to make historical claims by others.
List of contents
Introduction: Methods of Knowing
Kevin A. Morrison and Pälvi 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 PoemsElan 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
Pälvi Rantala
13. Knowing Hands: Using Tactile Research Methods in Researching and Writing the History of Design
Grace Lees-Maffei
About the author
Kevin A. Morrison is Provincial Chair Professor, University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University. He is the author of four monographs, including the MLA-award winning
Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place, and, most recently,
The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell, and Eliot.
Pälvi Rantala is a Finnish researcher and nonfiction writer. She holds a docentship in cultural history at the University of Turku and works in the intersecting fields of history, sociology and cultural studies. Her research projects have combined arts, culture and social science as well as historical knowledge, and she currently works on the cultural history of sleeplessness.
