Afterword: Notes from, and about, the history/fiction borderland

2025-03-06 Classification：literature Click()
Author：Demos, J

Article Title：Afterword: Notes from, and about, the history/fiction borderland

Abstract：
Historical fiction now comprises a kind of interdisciplinary borderland, to which historians, novelists and literature scholars have come in growing numbers. Each group brings its own set of preoccupations and priorities. For historians a key issue is the difference between provable 'knowledge' and deeper forms of 'understanding'.

Keywords: fiction; history; evidence; knowledge; understanding; imagination

DOI: 10.1080/13642520500149467

Source：RETHINKING HISTORY

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