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

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Author / Creator:	Gallagher, Catherine, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Imaginary histories -- History. Alternative histories (Fiction) -- History and criticism. Counterfactuals (Logic) Alternative histories (Fiction) Counterfactuals (Logic) Imaginary histories. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11399444

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ISBN:	9780226512556 022651255X 9780226512389 022651238X 9780226512419 022651241X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 12, 2017).
Summary:	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 it down as an object of dispassionate study.
Other form:	Print version : 9780226512389

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