Telling it like it wasn't : the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction /

Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fanta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gallagher, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Temas:
Imaginary histories > History.
Alternative histories (Fiction) > History and criticism.
Counterfactuals (Logic)
Histoire-fiction > Histoire.
Uchronie (Genre littéraire) > Histoire et critique.
Contrefactuels (Logique)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Imaginary histories.
Geschichtsphilosophie
Parahistorischer Roman
Alternativgeschichte
Kontrafaktisches Denken
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or as pop culture fodder, but in 'Telling It Like It Wasn't', Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226512556
022651255X

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