04416nam 2200601 a 450 991078987670332120230810233145.01-283-42448-7978661342448890-272-7760-5(CKB)2670000000139656(EBL)829554(OCoLC)769344148(SSID)ssj0000827575(PQKBManifestationID)11932175(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000827575(PQKBWorkID)10830170(PQKB)10870267(MiAaPQ)EBC829554(Au-PeEL)EBL829554(CaPaEBR)ebr10524097(CaONFJC)MIL342448(EXLCZ)99267000000013965619910610d1991 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWriting history as a prophet postmodernist innovations of the historical novel /Elisabeth WesselingAmsterdam ;Philadelphia :J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,1991.1 online resource (228 pages)Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature,0167-8175 ;v. 261-55619-425-0 90-272-2212-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.WRITING HISTORY AS A PROPHET; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; I. Postmodernism and History; A Revival of Historical Fiction; The Corpus of Postmodernist Historical Fiction; The Delineation of Postmodernism; Postmodernism and Deconstruction; Linda Hutcheon's Poetics of Postmodernism; The Postmodern and the Utopian; Notes; II. Some Theoretical Deliberations About Genre; Genre as a Social Institution; Notes; III. The Classical Model of Historical Fiction; The Emergence of the Historical Novel; The Framing of the Waverley NovelsThe Didactic Function of the Historical Novel; Imitation and Emulation; The Demise of Scott; Notes; IV. Modernist Experiments With the Historical Novel; A Twentieth-Century Perspective on Scott's Shallowness; Historicism Criticized; Historical Fiction and the Questioning of Objective Historical Knowledge; Modernist Innovations of the Historical Novel; The Subjectivization of History; The Transcendence of History; Sef-Reflexivity; Historical Fiction and the Detective Novel; Notes; V. Fiction Historical and Scientific; Science Fiction and the Utopian ModeUtopian Historical Fiction and Nostalgic Science Fiction; Time-Travelling; Uchronian Fiction; The Parodic Nature of Counterfactual Conjecture; The Political Implications of Uchronian Fiction; Modernist Self-Reflexivity Versus Postmodernist Counterfactual Parody; Notes; VI. Self-Reflexivity in Postmodernist Historical Fiction; The Conventionalization of Self-Reflexivity; Historiography in the Making; The Partiality of Historical Knowledge; The Unreliability of the Sources; Selectivity; Narrativity; Enclaves of Authenticity; History in the Making; Esthetic History; Political HistoryToward Counterfactual Conjecture; Notes; VII. Alternate Histories; Eclecticism; Negational Counterfactual Conjecture; Uchronian Fantasies; History Turned Upside Down; Counterfactual Shifts; Closure; Parody; Coda: ""Gravity's Rainbow; Notes; Conclusion; References; INDEXThis is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre.Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner.Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ;26.Historical fictionHistory and criticismHistorical fictionHistory and criticism.809.3/81Wesseling Elisabeth628425MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789876703321Writing history as a prophet1230864UNINA