‘adapting history and the history of adaptation’ in the adaptation of history (eds. Laurence Raw and Defne Ersin Tutan)
This collection begins with the position that history – stories crafted about the past – is not the preserve of professional historians. History as a practice has conventionally had a rigorous but limited scope. It is typically written, notes Hayden White for example, in one of the main narrative genres honed by novelists, essayists, and thinkers of diverse stripe in the 19th century. Fortunately, there have been considerable shifts in recent decades, and the grip of particular genres and a single medium has loosened.