English Pages [] Year This collection of essays concentrates on the structures and connections which have made it possible, over the last two. Before his death in , Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on t. Ranking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his w. As a scholar of medieval languages and literature, J. Tolkien brought to his fiction an intense interest in myth and.
Table of contents : Frontmatter List of illustrations page vii Preface and acknowledgements page ix Introduction: The inventions of history page 1 History and her siblings: law, medicine and theology page 12 Analysing the discourse of history page 33 Eternal returns and the singular subject: fact, faith and fiction in the novel page 64 Victor Hugo's inkblots: indeterminacy and identification in the representation of the past page 82 Clio in part: on antiquarianism and the historical fragment page 'Views of the past': reflections on the treatment of historical objects and museums of history page On living in a new country page The odd man out: historical narrative and the cinematic image page The truth in mapping page Art history in perspective page Index page The inventions of history To fistorians at work, past, present and future Other such flags, or what are called Occurrences, and black or bright symbolic Phenomena will flit through the Historical Imagination; these, one after one, let us note, with extreme brevity.
Title Bann, Stephen The inventions of history: essays on the representation of the past. Historiography ISBN U. All of them have benefited, however, from the interest of friends and colleagues, who either made useful suggestions at a stage when my ideas were still developing, or gave me the necessary stimulus of a context already prepared.
I am particularly glad to acknowledge the importance of a series of invaluable conferences and seminars which I have been able to attend over the past six years. Ackbar Abbas and his colleagues in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong provided not only an ideal location, but exceptional respondents like David Halliburton, Fredric Jameson and Elinor Shaffer on whom to test out my ideas on historical fiction in December Without his suggestion, I would have been more diffident about submitting these collected essays for publication.
Jim Styles and John West, of the Kent University Library, cheerfully put up with my unreasonable demands for photographic prints. I provide details of the first publication of the essays and acknowledge with thanks the editors, publishers and journals mentioned. Abbas and Tak-Wai Wong eds. Canterbury, October [x Introduction: The inventions of history hi tions of There is a debate going on about the uses of history.
