Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Postmodernism and History 1
5. Some Theoretical Deliberations about Genre 17
6. The Classical Model of Historical Fiction 27
7. Modernist Experiments with the Historical Novel 67
8. Fiction Historical and Scientific 93
9. Self-reflexivity in Postmodernist Historical Fiction 117
10. Alternate Histories 155
11. Conclusion 193
12. References 197
13. Index 213