LEADER 04541nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910959543803321 005 20240516095122.0 010 $a1-283-42448-7 010 $a9786613424488 010 $a90-272-7760-5 024 7 $a10.1075/upal.26 035 $a(CKB)2670000000139656 035 $a(EBL)829554 035 $a(OCoLC)769344148 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000827575 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11932175 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000827575 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10830170 035 $a(PQKB)10870267 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC829554 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL829554 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10524097 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL342448 035 $a(DE-B1597)719697 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789027277602 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000139656 100 $a19910610d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWriting history as a prophet $epostmodernist innovations of the historical novel /$fElisabeth Wesseling 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia :$cJ. Benjamins Pub. Co.,$d1991. 215 $a1 online resource (228 pages) 225 1 $aUtrecht publications in general and comparative literature,$x0167-8175 ;$vv. 26 311 0 $a1-55619-425-0 311 0 $a90-272-2212-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWRITING 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 Novels 327 $aThe 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 Mode 327 $aUtopian 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 History 327 $aToward 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; INDEX 330 $aThis is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre.Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. 410 0$aUtrecht publications in general and comparative literature ;$v26. 606 $aHistorical fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aHistorical fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.3/81 700 $aWesseling$b Elisabeth$0628425 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959543803321 996 $aWriting history as a prophet$91230864 997 $aUNINA