1st Edition
'A New Type of History' Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past
Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and ethical history. 3. Marcel Proust (1871-1927) and the recovery of ‘lost time’. 4. John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) and ‘an entirely new genre’. 5. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and ‘history as it is lived’. 6. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) and ‘a new type of history’. 7. Penelope Lively (born 1933) and history as ‘a construct of the human intellect’. 8. James Hamilton-Paterson (born 1941) and blundering about in the past ‘with fading maps’. 9. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Beverley Southgate is Reader Emeritus in History of Ideas at the University of Hertfordshire. In addition to numerous articles, his publications include History: What & Why?; Why Bother with History?; Postmodernism in History; What is History For?; History Meets Fiction; Contentment in Contention: Acceptance versus Aspiration.
"Beverley Southgate has always sought to open up 'conventional' histories to new possibilities informed by radical ethico-political considerations, and here we see him at his very best..."
Keith Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theory, University of Chichester, UK
