Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction

by Amy J. Elias

Co-winner of the Perkins Prize from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

Has twentieth-century political violence destroyed faith in historical knowledge? What happens to historical fiction when history is seen as either a form of Western imperialism or a form of postmodern simulation?

In Sublime Desire, Amy Elias examines our changing relationship to history and how fiction since 1960 reflects that change. She contends...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801867339
• ISBN13: 9780801867330
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.7"