 | Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism Subjects: Historical fiction English -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and history -- France -- History -- 19th century; Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English fict; Imperfect Histories puts "imperfection" at the heart of a theory of historical representation. Ann Rigney shows how historical writing involves dealing with intractable subjects that resist our efforts to know and to shape them. Those who write... Ann Rigney is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. She is the author o f The Rhetoric of Historical Representation: Three Narrative Histories of the French Revolution and coeditor of Historians and Social Values . |
