Imperfect Histories puts "imperfection" at the heart of a theory of
historical representation. Ann Rigney shows how historical writing
involves dealing with intractable subjects that resist our efforts
to know and to shape them. Those who write history, she says,
engage in an ongoing struggle to match up what they find relevant
in the past with the information and interpretive models at their
disposal. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of historical
practice. This is especially evident in the various attempts made
over the last two centuries to write an "alternative" history of
everyday experience.
Focusing on historical writing in the last decades of the
eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth, Rigney
analyzes a wide range of works by Walter Scott, Jules Michelet,
Augustin Thierry, and Thomas Carlyle. She shows how the attempt to
write an alternative history brought historical writing into a
close yet fraught relationship with literature. The result is a new
account of that relationship as it took shape in the romantic
period and as it continues to influence contemporary practices.
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