Hiding from History: Politics and Public Imagination
ISBN: 9781501717840
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Public history; Historiography; History -- Philosophy;

In Hiding from History, Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in political, literary, historical, and cultural theory: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of...


Meili Steele is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Realism and the Drama of Reference: Strategies of Representation in Balzac, Flaubert, and James; Critical Confrontations: Literary Theories in Dialogue; and Theorizing Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression.

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