LEADER 02747nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910779827403321 005 20230207222942.0 010 $a1-282-06274-3 010 $a9780253108861 010 $a9786612062742 010 $a0-253-10886-1 035 $a(CKB)111056485407274 035 $a(EBL)127790 035 $a(OCoLC)475867970 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000154457 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137337 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154457 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10406891 035 $a(PQKB)10899048 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC127790 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL127790 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10002972 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL206274 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485407274 100 $a20010810d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFictions of U.S. history$b[electronic resource] $ea theory and four illustrations /$fFrances Richardson Keller 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (198 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-34076-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFictions and the missions of history: our fictions, our missions, our selves -- The grandest fiction -- The scramble after the Civil War -- From Mormon polygamy to American monogamy: shifting fictions in the life of a society -- Eleanor Roosevelt: changing fictions in the life of an individual. 330 $aFictions of History offers a new definition of the term ""fictions."" A fiction is not merely the imaginative literature we treasure in works of novelists, dramatists, and poets. It is a powerful, driving idea that enters the life of an individual, the course a whole society travels, and the stories historians tell about the human past. In many dimensions, fictions affect every person on planet Earth. We all live lives based on fictions.Frances Richardson Keller chooses fascinating examples 606 $aFictions, Theory of 606 $aIdeology$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aPatriarchy 607 $aUnited States$xHistoriography 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$xPhilosophy 615 0$aFictions, Theory of. 615 0$aIdeology$xSocial aspects 615 0$aPatriarchy. 676 $a973/.01 700 $aKeller$b Frances Richardson$f1917-$01553239 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779827403321 996 $aFictions of U.S. history$93813644 997 $aUNINA