1st Edition
The Anachronistic Turn Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television
By Stephanie Russo
Copyright 2024
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethink the relationship between past and present. Through an examination of literary, cinematic, and popular texts and practices, this book investigates how twenty-first-century historical fictions use... Read more
1. Introduction: remixing the past 2. Biblical histories 3. Women's histories 4. The historical musical 5. The history play 6. Queens on screen 7. Writers on screen: Dickinson 8. Conclusion: the future of the past
Biography
Stephanie Russo is Discipline Chair of Literature at Macquarie University, Australia. She has published widely on historical fiction and women’s writing. She is the author of The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen (2020).
