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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version : |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine Gallagher |
ISBN: | 9780226512556 022651255X |
OCLC Number: | 1015239950 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Introduction -- The history of counterfactual history from Leibniz to Clausewitz -- Nineteenth-century alternate-history narratives -- How the USA lost the Civil War -- Historical activism and the alternate-America novels -- Nazi Britain: the invasion and occupation that weren't -- The fictions of nazi Britain. |
Responsibility: | Catherine Gallagher. |
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"Gallagher's new book is a genuinely original contribution to both the theory (and history) of the novel and the theory of history. Philosophers and historians have been debating the cognitive status of historical narratives for over half a century without taking into account the contributions to theory of narrative made by modern literary scholars. Based on a trove of 'counterfactualist' writings that have been little studied until of late, Gallagher's book sheds new light on the differences between history, myth, fiction, hypotheticals, the historical romance, and fantasy writing. Moreover, her book is mercifully free of jargon, her discussion of 'counterfactual' history is subtle and sophisticated, and her analysis of the relation between fiction and hypothesis convincing."--Hayden White "University Professor of the History of Consciousness, Emeritus, University of California " "At a time when fact itself is under siege, why tarry with thought experiments about pasts that didn't happen? Gallagher's answer is a historicist one: although counterfactual narratives have been with us in many forms since antiquity, their full story has remained untold. Fortunately, we no longer have to live in a timeline where Telling It Like It Wasn't has yet to be written. To read this engrossing book is to be haunted not by lives unled but by previously undermapped regions of history, philosophy, theology, legal reasoning, and literature." --Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form Read more...


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- Imaginary histories -- History.
- Alternative histories (Fiction) -- History and criticism.
- Counterfactuals (Logic)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Imaginary histories.
- Geschichtsphilosophie
- Parahistorischer Roman
- Alternativgeschichte
- Kontrafaktisches Denken