Abstract
Rapid changes in the context and condition of historical practice (technological, institutional, theoretical) invite practicing historians to entertain experimental techniques for engaging the past: for teaching students; for investigating archives; and for presenting the results of historical inquiry. The authors introduce a form of historically oriented research and writing that shows promise as a way of encouraging genuine immersion in the specificity and alterity of the past. This ‘metahistorical’ mode, which engages with historical fiction, but also with traditions of rigorous scholarly research, offers a powerful means by which to cultivate historical consciousness, and to promote imaginative historical practices.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 537-557 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Rethinking History |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2023 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- History
Keywords
- Historiography
- historical consciousness
- historical fiction
- metafiction
- pedagogical practices in history
- theory of history