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Making History New - Modernism and Historical Narrative (Hardcover)
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Making History New - Modernism and Historical Narrative (Hardcover)
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Making History New explores how several British modernists applied
the experimental methods of literary modernism to the writing of
narrative history and historical novels. The historical novel is
usually assumed to be only a concern of either nineteenth century
realism or postmodernism, but the historical works of Joseph
Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and Rebecca West evidence a modernist
obsession with historical narrative. Works like Nostromo, Parade's
End and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon utilized literary techniques we
have come to associate with modernism-fragmentation, subjectivity,
nonlinearity-in their effort to narrate the past, but unlike many
of their contemporaries they never jettisoned narrative as the
primary means for textual engagements with the historical past.
Such a divisioning between narrative and non-narrative modes of
writing history also mark the field of historiography in the wake
of the Holocaust, with poststructural challenges to narrative
history compelling many historians to deprioritize the role of
narrative. By contrast, many historians have experimented in
"creative history," works of history that acknowledge the possible
limitations of narrative but that attempt to ingest such problems
into the very form of historical recreation. The modernist
historians can provide models for such an enterprise, as they were
aware of the pitfalls of narrative, but were also driven by an
ethical imperative to relate the past in the forms of stories, and
so employed modernist techniques to both signal the past but also
stage the difficulties of the recreation of history in language.
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