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Telling it like it wasn't : the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction
- Title
- Telling it like it wasn't : the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction / Catherine Gallagher.
- Author
- Gallagher, Catherine
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- vii, 359 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern-day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or a pop culture fodder, but in Telling it Like it Wasn't, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down an an object of dispassionate study. She doesn't take a moral or normative stand on the practice but focuses her attention on how it works and to what ends- a quest that takes readers on a fascinating tour of literary and historical criticism. -- Publisher description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-4418
- ISBN
- 9780226512419
- 022651241X
- 9780226512389
- 022651238X
- LCCN
- 2017021803
- OCLC
- 990288942
- Author
- Gallagher, Catherine, author.
- Title
- Telling it like it wasn't : the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction / Catherine Gallagher.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-4418