Narrating the Past

TRAMA

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.

SOMMARIO

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

AUTORE

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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780230235939
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XIV, 226 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 226
• Pagine Romane: xiv