The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the
relationship between history and fiction, emphasising the tensions
and dilemmas created in this relationship and examining how various
writers have dealt with these. In the first part, two chapters
discuss the philosophy behind the connection between fiction and
history, whether history is fiction, and the distinction between
the past and history. Part two goes on to discuss the relationship
between history and literature using case studies such as Virginia
Woolf and Charles Dickens. Part three looks at television and film
(as well as other media) through case studies such as the film
Welcome to Sarajevo and Soviet and Australian films. Part four
considers a particular theme that has prominence in both history
and literature, postcolonial studies, focusing on the issues of
fictions of nationhood and civilization and the historical novel in
postcolonial contexts. Finally, the fifth section comprises two
interviews with novelists Penelope Lively and Adam Thorpe and
discusses the ways in which their works explore the nature of
history itself.
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