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 - Tolstoy, Proust, John Cowper Powys, Virginia Woolf,...
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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 - Tolstoy, Proust, John Cowper Powys, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Lively, and James Hamilton-Paterson - who have criticized scientifically based history and proposed alternative ways of approaching the past: more subjective and personal, colourful and imaginative, and above all ethically orientated. In this, it is argued, they have been reverting to an earlier rhetorical model for history, wh
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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 ; Index