The Role of History in Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell"

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Leipzig (Institut für Anglistik), language: English, abstract: One of the first academic publications on the first novel by Susanna Clarke. In the text, I discuss the role and function of history in 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell', taking a postmodernist perspective on the concept of history.