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Author Keller, Frances Richardson, 1917-

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

Publication Info. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary Keller chooses fascinating examples to demonstrate how dominant fictions of a given time emerge and are entrenched, and how historical figures have come to accept or reject these fictions. She begins with 'the grandest fiction', the patriarchal system, and reflects on its origins, effects, and future. Then she addresses the fictions that dominated stories historians told about Reconstruction after the Civil War; the emergence and demise of Mormon polygamy as a fiction in the 19th century; and the life of Eleanor Roosevelt and the fictions that empowered her.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject United States -- Historiography.
United States -- History -- Philosophy.
Fictions, Theory of.
Ideology -- Social aspects -- United States.
Patriarchy.
African American men.
African American men -- History.
Roosevelt, Eleanor.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Fictions, Theory of. (OCoLC)fst00923779
Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
Ideology -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00966926
Patriarchy. (OCoLC)fst01055082
Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Keller, Frances Richardson, 1917- Fictions of U.S. history. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2002 0253340764 (DLC) 2001004949
ISBN 0253108861 (electronic bk.)
9780253108869 (electronic bk.)
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