Preface. Chapter 1: History and Fiction. Chapter 2: History: Fact or Fiction? Chapter 3: Dryasdust and Co.: Some Fictional Representations of Historians. Chapter 4: Fiction, History, and Memory. Chapter 5: Fiction, History, and Ethics. Chapter 6: Fiction, History, and Identity. Chapter 7: Fiction and the Functions of History. Chapter 8: Endings. Postscript. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Beverley Southgate is Reader Emeritus in the History of Ideas, University of Hertfordshire.
‘This is a brilliantly illuminating and provocatively engaged study of those massively porous borderlands between history/fiction and fiction/history.’
Keith Jenkins, University of Chichester, UK
‘A wide-ranging and insightful analysis of the richly controversial relationship between history and fiction, Southgate's study demonstrates again and again that historical novelists and dramatists have been far more adept at communicating issues of objectivity, memory, relativism and identity than ivory-tower historical theorists. Highly recommended.’
Jennifer Smyth, University of Warwick, UK
