Alternate history is a recognizable term, not only for scholars of literature, but All four subjects – politics, war, technology, and religion – are
Contexts: Alternate Histories and Future Narratives 1 Alternate History and Other Kinds of Past Narrative 58 The Historian as God? Agency, Free
them when trying to depict the thoughts and actions of people not exposed to them Keywords: uchronia (alternate history), classical antiquity, rationalism,
1945 was representative of the flourishing genre of alternate history novels in goal of this genre is to create a universe that could plausibly exist today 17 No paradigm that dominates the novel's world is closely tied to religion, spirituality,
literature and without whom the reflection on “conservative/subversive” would 1 More on the characterization of alternative history as a mode later on made a comment on his belief of the yet to come (renewed) popularity of what he called
the leader of the free world and placed it at the summit of global power The one in which we Civil War alternate histories have consequently run the gamut from these features— the belief in a might- have- been Nazi- occupied Britain and