Fictions of U.S. history : a theory and four illustrations / Frances Richardson Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Frances Richardson, 1917-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fictions, Theory of.

Ideology--Social aspects--United States.

Ideology.

Patriarchy.

United States--Historiography.

United States.

United States--History--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fictions of History offers a new definition of the term ""fictions."" A fiction is not merely the imaginative literature we treasure in works of novelists, dramatists, and poets. It is a powerful, driving idea that enters the life of an individual, the course a whole society travels, and the stories historians tell about the human past. In many dimensions, fictions affect every person on planet Earth. We all live lives based on fictions.Frances Richardson Keller chooses fascinating examples

Contents:

Fictions and the missions of history: our fictions, our missions, our selves

The grandest fiction

The scramble after the Civil War

From Mormon polygamy to American monogamy: shifting fictions in the life of a society

Eleanor Roosevelt: changing fictions in the life of an individual.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06274-3

9780253108861

9786612062742

0-253-10886-1

OCLC:

475867970