History meets fiction
By: Beverley Southgate.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: History: concepts, theories and practice
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781408220122
Subjects: Historiography -- Philosophy; History -- Philosophy; Fiction
Description: "Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands? How do novelists represent historians and history? The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have traditionally been seen as mutually exclusive opposites ... Beverley Southgate untangles this knotty relationship, setting his discussion in a broad historical and philosophical context. Throughout, Southgate invokes a variety of writers to illuminate his arguments, from Dickens and Proust, through Virginia Woolf and Daphne du Maurier, to such contemporary novelists as Tim O'Brien, Penelope Lively, and Graham Swift"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.