@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt9qdhhx.7,
 ISBN = {9780859915816},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdhhx.7},
 abstract = {In one influential formulation, postmodernism has been defined ‘as incredulity toward meta-narratives’. These words of Jean-François Lyotard have had considerable impact on those historians seeking to construct a postmodern history.¹ The word ‘incredulity’ may be wisely chosen in preference to ‘abandonment’, but the words remain the expression of a forlorn hope. ‘Postmodernism’ itself is a word embodying a meta-narrative; and it can be argued that all history is reliant, if not exactly on meta-narratives, then on a ‘great story’, or on ‘meta-historical frameworks’.² This is so because of the problematic nature of historical evidence. No historical account can validate itself},
 author = {GLENN BURGESS},
 booktitle = {Neo-Historicism: Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics},
 edition = {NED - New edition},
 pages = {31--47},
 publisher = {Boydell and Brewer},
 title = {The ‘Historical Turn’ and the Political Culture of Early Modern England: Towards a Postmodern History?},
 year = {2000}
}