Elias, Amy J.

Sublime Desire : History and Post-1960s Fiction

Preface ix Introduction xvii ONE Theory 1(100) Sorting Out Connections: The Historical Romance in Hyper-reality 3(43) The Metahistorical Romance and the Historical Sublime 46(55) TWO Analysis 101(142) Cracking the Mirror: Spatializing History in Metahistorical Romances 103(46) Metamodernity: The Postmodern Turn on the Enlightenment 149(32) Western Modernity versus Postcolonial Metahistory 181(40) Coda: The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon 221(22) Appendix: A Listing of Some Metahistorical Romances 243(4) Notes 247(36) Works Cited 283(28) Index 311