From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction

by Timothy Parrish

This is a reconsideration of the relationship between history and fiction in the context of postmodernism. Why don't we read novels as if they were histories and histories as if they were novels? Recent postmodern theorists such as Hayden White and Linda Hutcheon have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative representation analogous to fiction. Yet, contrary to the fears of some historians, such arguments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558496270
• ISBN13: 9781558496279
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher