Probleme der Darstellbarkeit von Geschichte

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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage415en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue4en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage437en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume53en_US
dc.contributor.authorNünning, Vera
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-28T13:13:39Z
dc.date.available2023-02-28T13:13:39Z
dc.date.issued2003en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that decades before Sir Walter Scott published his first historical novel, a number of innovative British novels questioned the possibility of rendering historical topics in narrative form. Although Henry Fielding had claimed that the novel should closely resemble historiography, three eighteenth-century British novelists recognized the problems besetting the attempt to provide true stories of the past in different ways. Sarah Fielding tried to get rid of the elevated position of the ‘omniscient’ narrator, rejecting even chronological order in her fictionalised account of the lives of Cleopatra and Octavia. Laurence Sterne parodied not only historiographical ways of arriving at true knowledge of past events in his seminal novel Tristram Shandy, he also demonstrated that the story is the result of the narrator’s use of narrative conventions and of language, and that the gap between the past and the representation of the past cannot be bridged. Maria Edgeworth tried to get rid of the historiographical dilemma by choosing an unreliable narrator as a biographer in her work Castle Rackrent, which is one of those eighteenth-century novels that casts doubt on whether it is possible to tell a true story of the past with those narrative means which Scott would later use to great acclaim.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2852
dc.language.isogeren_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn0016-8904en_US
dc.relation.journalGermanisch-Romanische Monatsschriften_US
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dc.subject.ddcddc:820en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:900en_US
dc.subject.fieldenglishstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldhistoryen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.titleProbleme der Darstellbarkeit von Geschichteen_US
dc.title.alternativeDie narrative Inszenierung geschichtstheoretischer Konzepte in ausgewählten britischen Romanen des späten 18. Jahrhundertsen_US
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