Sublime desire: history and post-1960s fiction
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Main Author: Elias, Amy J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2001
Series:Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-309) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 320 pages)
ISBN:0801867339
0801875439
9780801867330
9780801875434

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