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This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre.Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner.

82-31 --- 82.015.9 --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- 82-31 Roman --- Roman --- Fiction --- Comparative literature --- Historical fiction --- History and criticism. --- ROMAN HISTORIQUE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- jeugdliteratuur

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What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a broad range of challenges, related to the future of print culture, to shifts in funding strategies, and to the changing contours of culture and society. Several publications have addressed these challenges as well as potential responses on a theoretical level. This coedited volume opts for a different strategy and presents accessible case studies that demonstrate what humanities scholars contribute to concrete and pressing social debates about topics including adoption, dementia, hacking, and conservation. These “engaged” forms of humanities research reveal the continued importance of thinking and rethinking the nature of art, culture, and public life.

Humanities --- ART / History / Contemporary (1945-). --- Humanities, cultural studies, media studies, cultural history, (art) history, gender studies. --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education