208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction 1. 'Origins': early manifestations and some definitions 2. 'Low' genre or sensational novels 3. High or Literary Fiction 4. Postmodernism and the Historical Novel 5. Challenging History History from the margins: colonial, sexual Glossary Further Reading
Biography
Jerome de Groot is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at The University of Manchester. His publications include Consuming History (2008) and Royalist Identities (2004).
'a rare examination of how historical fiction can enhance our understandings of the past and how its postmodern forms may indeed cause us to revisit what history is.' - History Today
