BIP! Finder - The Romantics in Alternate History from Hawthorne to Clarke: Generic Edges and the Counterfactual Turn

2018 • The Romantics in Alternate History from Hawthorne to Clarke: Generic Edges and the Counterfactual Turn

Authors: Alex Broadhead

Venue: Romanticism

Type: Publication

Abstract: In 2009, Damian Walford Davies called for a counterfactual turn in Romantic studies, a move reflective of a wider growth of critical interest in the relationship between Romanticism and counterfactual historiography. In contrast to these more recent developments, the lives of the Romantics have provided a consistent source of speculation for authors of popular alternate history since the nineteenth century. Yet the aims of alternate history as a genre differ markedly from those of its more scholarly cousin, counterfactual historiography. How, t... (read more)

Topics: Literature Aesthetics Epistemology

DOI: 10.3366/rom.2018.0373

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