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BL
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635052
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Elias, Amy J.,1961-
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| Title & Author
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Sublime desire : : history and post-1960s fiction /\ Amy J. Elias
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| Series Statement
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Parallax : re-visions of culture and society
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xxviii, 320 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0801867339
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: 9780801867330
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-309) and index
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| Contents
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1. Theory. 1. Sorting Out Connections: The Historical Romance in Hyper-reality. 2. The Metahistorical Romance and the Historical Sublime -- 2. Analysis. 3. Cracking the Mirror: Spatializing History in Metahistorical Romances. 4. Metamodernity: The Postmodern Turn on the Enlightenment. 5. Western Modernity versus Postcolonial Metahistory. 6. Coda: The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon
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This text examines our changing relationship to history and how fiction reflects it. The author draws on more than thirty relevant texts, from Tolstoy's War and Peace to Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry
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Historical fiction-- History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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809.3/81
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| LC Classification
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PN3441.E44 2001
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