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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This brief book will be a good introduction for the students in my Seminar in Historical Fiction. It introduces and defines the genre, traces its origins and development, and reviews key critical theories. Most interesting are the connections to Marxist theories of history and the increasing popularity of the historical novel, and the revisionist views of feminist theorists. In a chapter on "genre fiction," De Groot details the most prevalent forms of historical fiction for women (romance and history, including Jane Austen prequels and sequels, the movement towards female agency, and an entire industry of Anne Boleyn fiction), men (adventure and heroism, mainly set in war time), and children). Most useful for my purposes will be the chapter on literary historical fiction and the influence of modernism and postmodernism, which includes brief discussions of two of the novels I will be teaching, Restoration and Regeneration, and a lengthier section on metafiction in Atonement. The book includes a useful glossary and an extensive bibliography. A very handy guide for historical fiction lovers. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround it, including: the development of the historical novel from early eighteenth-century works through to postmodern and contemporary historical fiction different genres, such as sensational or 'low' fiction, crime novels, literary works, counterfactual writing and related issues of audience, value, and authenticity the many functions of historical fiction, particularly the challenges it poses to accepted histories and postmodern questioning of 'grand narratives' the relationship of the historical novel to the wider cultural sphere with reference to historical theory, the internet, television, and film key theoretical concepts such as the authentic fallacy, postcolonialism, Marxism, queer and feminist reading. Drawing on a wide range of examples from across the centuries and around the globe The Historical Novel is essential reading for students exploring the interface of history and fiction. No library descriptions found. |
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