Canadian Historical Writing [electronic resource] : Reading the Remains /
Hulan, R.author.
Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporary Canadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates within the fields of literary studies and history, the book focuses on the roles played by time, evidence, and interpretation in defining the historical.
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Canadian Historical Writing: Reading the Remains; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1: From Romance to Revision: Historical Writing in Canada; Canada Comes of Age (Again); History and Historical Fiction; Canadian Crises in Historical Knowledge; Historical Fiction in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada; Historical Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada; The Historical after Postmodernism; Chapter 2: Timothy Findley and the Burdens of Metahistory; History and Theory; After Metahistory; Timothy Findley: The Anatomy of a Writer's Style; Rereading Findley's Famous Last Words
Chapter 3: Margaret Atwood in Search of Things PastThe Uncertain Dead; Alias Grace and the Revival of Narrative; Negotiating with the Living: Problems in Archival Research; Working in the Atwood Papers; Alias Grace as the Classical Historical Novel; Chapter 4: Armand Garnet Ruffo and the Persistence of Memory; Aboriginal Authors and Historical Fiction; The "Native" in Canadian History; Native American Survivance and Autohistory; The Specter of Authenticity; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index
Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporary Canadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates within the fields of literary studies and history, the book focuses on the roles played by time, evidence, and interpretation in defining the historical.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Historiography.
America—Literatures.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Historiography and Method.
North American Literature.