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History Is a Contemporary Literature -- Contents -- The New Frontier: Preface to the Cornell Edition -- Introduction -- Part I. The Great Divide -- 1. Historians, Orators, and Writers -- 2. The Novel, Father of History? -- 3. History as Science and "Literary Germs" -- 4. The Return of the Literary Repressed -- Part II. The Historical Way of Reasoning -- 5. What Is History? -- 6. Writers of History-as-Science -- 7. Approaches to Veridiction -- 8. Fictions of Method -- Part III. Literature and the Social Sciences -- 9. From Nonfiction to Literature-as-Truth -- 10. History, a Literature under Constraint? -- 11. The Research Text -- 12. On Scholarship of the Twenty-First Century -- Index.
Lamenting the specialization that has isolated the academy from the rest of society, History Is a Contemporary Literature aims to bring imagination and audacity into the practice of scholarship, drawing on the techniques of literature to strengthen the methods of the social sciences.