Political fiction and the historical imagination
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Political fiction and the historical imagination
Macmillan, 1990
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Bibliography: p. 288-294
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Description
This study gives insights into the process of "imagining history" and argues the case for a humanistic approach. It shows how writers have brought alive in their work an individual struggle to comprehend some of the most important political phenomena to the 2Oth century. Novelists are able to use empirical narratives as contexts within which they judge the robustness of competing constructions of historical reality. Dr Horsley examines ironic, comic, tragic and romantic departures from a simple, objective model of enquiry and asks how each mode helps to clarify problems of historical understanding. There is criticism of both British and American novels by Waugh, Conrad, Lawrence, Robert Penn Warren and Joseph Heller.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 "The end of clear thinking and the triumph of irrationalism" - British fiction, 1910-1940: Collingwood and Waugh - the philosopher's detective and Boot of the "Beast"
- irony as historical realism - "Under Western Eyes"
- jumping overboard - Lawrence, "Kangaroo", and the retreat from history. Part 2 All the king's and president's men - political intellectuals in post-war America: tragic knowledge and "The Earned Redemption" - the history lesson of "All the King's Men"
- Watergate and after - the good, the bad and the "Good as Gold".
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