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'A New Type of History' - Fictional proposals for dealing with the past (Hardcover)
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'A New Type of History' - Fictional proposals for dealing with the past (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
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Linking fiction with history and historical theory, 'A New Type of
History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on
a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists -
Tolstoy, Proust, John Cowper Powys, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis,
Penelope Lively, and James Hamilton-Paterson - who have criticized
scientifically based history and proposed alternative ways of
approaching the past: more subjective and personal, colourful and
imaginative, and above all ethically orientated. In this, it is
argued, they have been reverting to an earlier rhetorical model for
history, which is now being increasingly adopted by practising
historians. This 'new type of history' may lack the claimed
'objectivity' and 'truth' of its immediate predecessor, but it
opens the way for an ethically focused subject that may be used (in
Nietzsche's words) 'for the purpose of life'. Providing a new take
on both novelists and historiography, and ranging widely from the
nineteenth century to the present day, this cross-disciplinary
study will be valuable reading for all those interested in the
intersection and interplay between fiction and history.
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