Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Saving Private Ryan, the End of the Cold War, and the Value of Historical Experience
- 1 The Uses of History: From Nineteenth-Century Historicism to Twenty-First-Century Pluralism
- 2 “No Longer and Not Yet”: Don DeLillo and the Aftermath of the Cold War
- 3 After Race: Body Language and Historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy
- 4 “A Singular Act of Invention”: Storytelling, Pluralism, and Philip Roth's American Trilogy
- 5 Lukácsian Aesthetics, Self-Creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the Dark
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2016
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Saving Private Ryan, the End of the Cold War, and the Value of Historical Experience
- 1 The Uses of History: From Nineteenth-Century Historicism to Twenty-First-Century Pluralism
- 2 “No Longer and Not Yet”: Don DeLillo and the Aftermath of the Cold War
- 3 After Race: Body Language and Historiography in Toni Morrison's Beloved and A Mercy
- 4 “A Singular Act of Invention”: Storytelling, Pluralism, and Philip Roth's American Trilogy
- 5 Lukácsian Aesthetics, Self-Creation, and Richard Powers's Plowing the Dark
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Pluralist DesiresContemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War, pp. 145 - 164Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015