Sublime desire : history and post-1960s fiction /

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This text examines our changing relationship to history and how fiction reflects it. The author draws on more than thirty relevant texts, from Tolstoy's War and Peace to Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Elias, Amy J., 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Series:Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Subjects:
Historical fiction > History and criticism.
Roman historique > Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Historical fiction.
Postmodernisme.
Fictie.
Geschiedschrijving.
Historische romans.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Theory. 1. Sorting Out Connections: The Historical Romance in Hyper-reality. 2. The Metahistorical Romance and the Historical Sublime
  • 2. Analysis. 3. Cracking the Mirror: Spatializing History in Metahistorical Romances. 4. Metamodernity: The Postmodern Turn on the Enlightenment. 5. Western Modernity versus Postcolonial Metahistory. 6. Coda: The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon.

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