Theories of History

Michael J. Kelly is Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. He is the General Director of the project Networks and Neighbours and Co-General Director, with Dolores Castro, of the series Visigothic Symposia. Arthur Rose is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in English Studies and Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee (Bloomsbury, 2017).

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsEditorial Note1. Introduction: Evental History and the Humanities, Michael J. Kelly (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA)2. From the Extended Mind to the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale in Literary History, Arthur Rose (Durham University, UK)3. How We Got Out of Music History, and How We Can Get Back into It, J. P. E. Harper-Scott (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 4. Humanist Matters, Adi Efal-Lautenschläger (University of Cologne, Germany)5. The Rhetoric of Time and the Time of Rhetoric, Rik Peters (University of Groningen, Netherlands)6. Past, Present, and Future, F. R. Ankersmit (University of Groningen, Netherlands)7. The Nigerian "History Machine", Samaila Suleiman (Bayero University Kano, Nigeria)8. History as a Scam: Confrontation and Resentment between Archaeology and History, Andre Szczawlinska Muceniecks (State University of Campinas, Brazil)9. Alternative Forms of Historical Writing: Concepts and Facts in Goya’s Disasters of War, Javier López-Alós (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)10. "Methods of Reasoning and Imagination": History's Failures and Capacities in Anglophone Design Research, Sarah Teasley (Royal College of Arts, UK) NotesIndex

The contributions are invariably thought provoking … [For] those in the field and interested in the theory of history it is a rewarding read and a valuable contribution on multiple levels.