Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction

Amy J. Elias

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Contemporary Literature and Criticism Philosophy, History, and Historiography Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

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Contents: Sublime Desire Preface: Postmodernism, history and the Metahistorical Romance The Question of Postmodernism Chapter 1: Sorting Out Connection: The Historical romance in Hyperreality The Historical Novel, Historiography, and Romance The Metahistorical Novel, Romance, and Historiography Chapter 2: The Metahistorical Romance and the Historical Sublime Chapter 3: The Improbability of the Real: Spatializing History in Metahistorical Romances Spatiality and Postmodernism Spatiality and Metahistorical Romance Paratactic vs. Positivistic History Simultaneous History in Flatland Chapter 4: Metamodernity: The Postmodern Turn On the Enlightenment Chapter 5: Western Modernity vs. Postcolonial Metahistory Chapter 6: Coda: The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon Notes Works Cited Appendix: A Listing of Metahistorical Romance

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