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- Title
"Is This Real?".
- Authors
Lynch, Deidre
- Abstract
One salutary effect of encountering the often bizarre materials—Leibniz's possible worlds theory, war-games played in Prussian military academies, books about the presidency of Jefferson Davis—that Catherine Gallagher has assembled in Telling It Like It Wasn't is that one obtains a better purchase on the deep weirdness that also informs normal realist novels. That weirdness is central to the realist tradition's historical fictions especially, by virtue of the peculiar manner in which they compound together fictional invention and referentiality and call on readers to traverse the ontological chasms between the two.
- Subjects
MILITARY education; DAVIS, Jefferson, 1808-1889; TELLING It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History &; Fiction (Book); GALLAGHER, Catherine; HISTORICAL fiction
- Publication
Victorian Literature & Culture, 2019, Vol 47, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
1060-1503
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1060150318001365