Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel

by Alan Robinson (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $116.22

  In recent years controversy has surrounded the narrative turn in history and the historical turn in fiction. This book clarifies what is at stake, tracing connections between historiography and life-writing, arguing that the challenges posed in representing the past illuminate issues which are central to all literary narrative.