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History Meets Fiction (Record no. 1378)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781408220122
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 37.99
Form of issue BB
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Subject category code NHAH
Source thema
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Subject category code HBAH
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Subject category code HIS016000
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Subject category code 907.2
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Beverley C. Southgate
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title History Meets Fiction
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20091015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 240 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands? How do novelists represent historians and history? The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have traditionally been seen as mutually exclusive opposites. However, new hybrid forms of writing – from historical fiction to docudramas to fictionalised biographies – have led to the blurring of boundaries, and given rise to the claim that history itself is just another form of fiction. In his thought-provoking new book, Beverley Southgate untangles this knotty relationship, setting his discussion in a broad historical and philosophical context. Throughout, Southgate invokes a variety of writers to illuminate his arguments, from Dickens and Proust, through Virginia Woolf and Daphne du Maurier, to such contemporary novelists as Tim O’Brien, Penelope Lively, and Graham Swift. Anyone interested in the many meeting points between history and fiction will find this an engaging, accessible and stimulating read.

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