Remaking History

The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions

Jerome De Groot

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Routledge
04 August 2015

History; History: theory & methods

Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to ‘history’, while also enabling audiences to understand the ways in which the past is written, structured and ordered.

Jerome de Groot uses examples from contemporary popular culture to show the relationship between fiction and history in two key ways. Firstly, the texts pedagogically contribute to the historical imaginary and secondly they allow reflection upon how the past is constructed as ‘history’. In doing so, they provide an accessible and engaging means to critique, conceptualize and reject the processes of historical representation. The book looks at the use of the past in fiction from sources including Mad Men, Downton Abbey and Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn, along with the work of directors such as Terence Malick, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese, to show that fictional representations enable a comprehension of the fundamental strangeness of the past and the ways in which this foreign, exotic other is constructed.

Drawing from popular films, novels and TV series of recent years, and engaging with key thinkers from Marx to Derrida, Remaking History is a must for all students interested in the meaning that history has for fiction, and vice versa.

By: Jerome De Groot
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9780415858786
ISBN 10: 041585878X
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 04 August 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Remaking History: The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions

Jerome De Groot, who in two previous volumes has done pioneering work on the impact of historical fictions on our sense and understanding of the past, carries his brilliant and expansive arguments into brave new realms, from that of Hilary Mantel, to TV's Mad Men, to night worlds of popular vampire fictions. A must read for anyone interested in what the author rightly calls new historic encounters, new modes of pastness, a new historicity. Robert A Rosenstone, Professor Emeritus of History, California Institute of Technology, USA Around the complex, deep entanglements of the historical and the fictional a rich body of commentary has gathered. Jerome de Groot's decisive contribution to this follows from the ambitiously diverse scope of his reference points and his sheer critical acuity in exploring the ways in which 'the past' is both produced by, and feeds, imaginings. John Corner, University of Leeds, UK