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Author |
: Jerome De Groot |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 2009-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135253202 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113525320X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Historical Novel by : Jerome De Groot
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.
Author |
: Hannah Kohler |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2016-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250086860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250086868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Outside Lands by : Hannah Kohler
San Francisco, 1968: Jeannie and Kip are bereaved and adrift, their mother dead under mysterious circumstances, and their father--a decorated World War II veteran--consumed by guilt and losing control of his teenage children. Kip, a dreamer and swaggerer prone to small-time trouble, enlists with the Marines to fight in Vietnam. Jeannie finds a seemingly safe haven in early marriage to a doctor and motherhood. But when Kip is accused of a terrible military crime, Jeannie is seduced--sexually, emotionally, politically--into joining an underground antiwar organization. As Jennie attempts to save her brother, her search for the truth leads her into two dangerous relationships, with a troubled young woman and a grievously wounded veteran, that might threaten her marriage, her child, and perhaps her life. This is the story of a family caught in the maelstrom of sweeping change, where social customs and traditional values are overturned by events that will transform America. An emotionally wrenching and morally complex novel, The Outside Lands is Hannah Kohler's powerful, confident debut and announces her as a remarkable new literary talent.
Author |
: Harry E. Shaw |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2018-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501723285 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501723286 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Forms of Historical Fiction by : Harry E. Shaw
Harry Shaw’s aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history was used in prose fiction during the nineteenth century, examining major works by Sir Walter Scott—the first modern historical novelist—and by Balzac, Hugo, Anatole France, Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, and Tolstoy.
Author |
: Herbert Butterfield |
Publisher |
: Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages |
: 74 |
Release |
: 2024-08-12 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The Historical Novel : An Essay by : Herbert Butterfield
"The Historical Novel: An Essay" by Herbert Butterfield is a critical examination of the historical novel genre. Published in 1924, Butterfield's essay explores the relationship between historical fiction and historical accuracy, discussing how novels set in historical contexts engage with and represent the past. Butterfield, a renowned historian and scholar, offers insights into how historical novels contribute to our understanding of history and the challenges of blending fact with fiction. He addresses the role of the historical novel in shaping public perceptions of historical events and figures, and how authors balance narrative storytelling with historical fidelity. "The Historical Novel: An Essay" is valued for its scholarly analysis and its contribution to the study of historical fiction, providing readers and scholars with a deeper understanding of the genre's impact and significance.
Author |
: Ken Follett |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 1009 |
Release |
: 2010-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101442197 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101442190 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pillars of the Earth by : Ken Follett
#1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection The “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career—and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended. “Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known . . . of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect—a man divided in his soul . . . of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame . . . and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother. A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett’s historical masterpiece.
Author |
: Susan Brantly |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2017-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315386447 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315386445 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era by : Susan Brantly
This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.
Author |
: Robert Graves |
Publisher |
: Rosetta Books |
Total Pages |
: 606 |
Release |
: 2014-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780795336799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0795336799 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis I, Claudius by : Robert Graves
“One of the really remarkable books of our day”—the story of the Roman emperor on which the award-winning BBC TV series was based (The New York Times). Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the danger and risk of the line of ascension, Claudius seemed an unlikely candidate for emperor. Yet, on the death of Caligula, Claudius finds himself next in line for the throne, and must stay alive as well as keep control. Drawing on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius, and Tacitus, noted historian and classicist Robert Graves tells the story of the much-maligned Emperor Claudius with both skill and compassion. Weaving important themes throughout about the nature of freedom and safety possible in a monarchy, Graves’s Claudius is both more effective and more tragic than history typically remembers him. A bestselling novel and one of Graves’ most successful, I, Claudius has been adapted to television, film, theatre, and audio. “[A] legendary tale of Claudius . . . [A] gem of modern literature.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author |
: Jonathan Lee |
Publisher |
: Granta Books |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2021-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783786268 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783786264 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Mistake by : Jonathan Lee
The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free? Born to a struggling farming family in 1820, Andrew Haswell Green was a self-made man who reshaped Manhattan, built Central Park and turned New York into a modern metropolis. Now, at eighty-three, when he thought the world could hold no more surprises, he is murdered. As the detective assigned to the case traces his ghost across the city, other spectres appear: a wealthy courtesan; a broken-hearted man in a bowler hat; and an ambitious politician, Samuel, whose lifelong friendship was a source of joy and frustration. In a life of industry and restraint, where is the space for love? As restlessly inventive and absorbing as its protagonist, The Great Mistake is the story of a city, and a singular man, transformed by longing.
Author |
: Philippa Gregory |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 756 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416556534 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416556532 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other Boleyn Girl by : Philippa Gregory
The daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to attract the attention of the king. He first takes Mary as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegitimate son, and then Anne as his wife.
Author |
: Tom Bragg |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2016-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317052050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317052056 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel by : Tom Bragg
Demonstrating that nineteenth-century historical novelists played their rational, trustworthy narrators against shifting and untrustworthy depictions of space and place, Tom Bragg argues that the result was a flexible form of fiction that could be modified to reflect both the different historical visions of the authors and the changing aesthetic tastes of the reader. Bragg focuses on Scott, William Harrison Ainsworth, and Edward Bulwer Lytton, identifying links between spatial representation and the historical novel's multi-generic rendering of history and narrative. Even though their understanding of history and historical process could not be more different, all writers employed space and place to mirror narrative, stimulate discussion, interrogate historical inquiry, or otherwise comment beyond the rational, factual narrator's point of view. Bragg also traces how landscape depictions in all three authors' works inculcated heroic masculine values to show how a dominating theme of the genre endures even through widely differing versions of the form. In taking historical novels beyond the localized questions of political and regional context, Bragg reveals the genre's relevance to general discussions about the novel and its development. Nineteenth-century readers of the novel understood historical fiction to be epic and serious, moral and healthful, patriotic but also universal. Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel takes this readership at its word and acknowledges the complexity and diversity of the form by examining one of its few continuous features: a flexibly metaphorical valuation of space and place.