Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction

by Catherine Gallagher

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Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or as pop culture fodder, but in Telling It Like It Wasn't, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022651241X

ISBN13:9780226512419

Release Date:January 2018

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:0.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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