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1 online resource (vii, 265 pages) |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- MELANCHOLY AND HISTORY IN W.G. SEBALD'S THE RINGS OF SATURN -- FORGOTTEN MEMORIES -- HUNT AND NOT THE CAPTURE -- AMERICAN HISTORY AS A HISTORY OF SELF-MAKING -- WE THINK OF ROME -- PART II -- FROM REFORMED COQUETTE TO COQUETTISH REFORMER -- GENDERED RECONSTRUCTION OF FEMINIST AUTHORITY IN THE PRINCE'S PARLOR -- THE WERE-WOLF AND JACK THE RIPPER -- DRESS[ING] THE UNKNOWABLE IN THE GARMENTS OF THE KNOWN -- THE GRAND ILLUSION -- PART III -- BLIGH OF THE BOUNTY -- SPECIMENS OF UNWORLDLINESS |
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MRS DONOGHUE AND THE LAW'S STRANGE NEIGHBOURDIASPORIC LITERATURE AS COUNTER-HISTORY -- HISTORY AND DISPLACEMENT -- PART IV -- THE UNFINISHED PROJECTS OF MICHEL FOUCAULT AND ALBERT CAMUS -- HOW TO READ A CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE AS A NINETEENTH-CENTURY TEXT -- HUMOUR AND THE METAFICTION OF HISTORY -- AGAINST THE DAY AND THE PROSPECTS OF HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION -- RELAXED AND COMFORTABLE -- FACT AND FICTION IN HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON'S THE YOUNG COSIMA -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX |
| Summary |
""History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."" (George Santayana) Enquiries into the relationship between literature and history continue to stir up intense critical and scholarly debate. Alongside the new hybrid categories that |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Literature and history -- Congresses
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History in literature -- Congresses
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literary studies: general.
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Literary essays.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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History in literature
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Literature and history
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Groth, Helen
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Sheehan, Paul, 1960-
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Australasian Association for Literature.
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| LC no. |
2010398412 |
| ISBN |
9781443816120 |
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1443816124 |
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1282467050 |
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9781282467057 |
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9786612467059 |
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6612467053 |
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