Telling it like it wasn't : the counterfactual imagination in history and fiction / Catherine Gallagher.

Author/Creator:

Gallagher, Catherine, author.

Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Format/Description:

Book
vii, 359 pages ; 23 cm

Subjects:

Imaginary histories -- History.
Alternative histories (Fiction) -- History and criticism.
Counterfactuals (Logic).
Alternative histories (Fiction).
Imaginary histories.

Form/Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Contents:

Introduction
The history of counterfactual history from Leibniz to Clausewitz
Nineteenth-century alternate-history narratives
How the USA lost the Civil War
Historical activism and the alternate-America novels
Nazi Britain: the invasion and occupation that weren't
The fictions of nazi Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226512419
022651241X
9780226512389
022651238X
9780226512556

OCLC:

990288942

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