Integrity and Historical Research

Tony Gibbons gained his LL.B. at the University of Adelaide, his Masters at Manchester University and his PhD at Flinders University. At present he is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia. He is the author of On Reflection (2004), Reflection, Science and the Virtues (2009), co-editor of The Process of Research in Education (2009), and a number of papers in the field of philosophy. Emily Sutherland is Research Fellow at Flinders University, South Australia, where she completed her PhD, and taught in the Department of Humanities. Her special research focus is historical novels, and, in particular, the depiction of historical characters in works of fiction. She is also a published novelist and poet. Her latest novel is The Paraclete Conundrum (2010) depicting an imaginary meeting between Heloise, Hildegard of Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Introduction 1. The Concept of Integrity. Tony Gibbons 2. ‘Who Would Want to Believe that Except in the Service of the Bleakest Realism?’ Historical Fiction and Ethics. Jerome de Groot 3. Transgressive Legacies of Memory: The Concept of Techné in Primo Levi’s Periodic Table. Catalina Botez 4. Fictions and Histories. Patricia Duncker 5. The Evil That Men Do Lives after Them and the Good is Oft Interred within Their Bones. Emily Sutherland 6. When Is It Time For ‘Writing With An Untrammelled Pen’? Reconciling the South Australian Settler Colony with Its Violent Past in Simpson Newland’s Historical Novel, Paving the Way: A Romance of the Australian Bush. Rick Hosking 7. Using lives: Working with Life Stories in a Time of Revolution. Nicholas Brown 8. Integrity and Oral History: Choices Facing The Oral Historian. Angela Franks 9. ‘Nude Scenes of Lovemaking and Violation on Stage and Screen’: Heloise and Abelard, Old Bones and the Uses of the Past. Juanita Feros Ruys 10. Integrity at the Intersection: Peripheries, Herstories and Film. Maria Reimondez 11. Historians in Fiction and Film. Dave Mosler and Jessica Murrell