This study gives insights into the process of "imagining history" and argues the case for a humanistic approach. It shows how writers have brought alive in their work an individual struggle to comprehend some of the most important political phenomena to the 2Oth century. Novelists are able to use empirical narratives as contexts within which they judge the robustness of competing constructions of historical reality. Dr Horsley examines ironic, comic, tragic and romantic departures from a simple, objective model of enquiry and asks how each mode helps to clarify problems of historical understanding. There is criticism of both British and American novels by Waugh, Conrad, Lawrence, Robert Penn Warren and Joseph Heller.
- ISBN10 0333499522
- ISBN13 9780333499528
- Publish Date March 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 May 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 340
- Language English