Historical Fiction Now
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 August 2023
- ISBN 9780198877035
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 223x145x20 mm
- Weight 422 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 Illustrations 538
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Short description:
An edited volume that brings together award-winning historians, novelists, and literary critics to discuss the popularity of historical fiction.
MoreLong description:
Historical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre's character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century.
Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics, academics, and several authors writing across these categories, the volume explores the nature of reading, writing, and writing about historical fiction in the present moment while meditating on some of the myriad contexts of the genre.
What inspires writers to choose particular moments, events, and personalities as the subjects of their fictional imaginings, and with what implications for their readers' understanding of the present? How do contemporary scholars approach the making and reception of historical fiction, and how do these approaches resonate with writers' own preoccupations in the process of invention? What might scholars of a genre with a long and complex history learn from its contemporary practitioners? Conversely, how do novelists understand their own historical fictions (if at all) in relation to the theoretical and critical traditions shaping the work of their academic colleagues?
The collection features an original essay by Hilary Mantel on the making of the Wolf Hall trilogy as well as contributions from internationally known novelists such as George Saunders, Namwali Serpell, Maaza Mengiste, and Téa Obreht, among others.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Historical Fiction Now
I. Inventions
Ghosts in a Graveyard
Naming Names: Reflections on Referentiality in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy
Looking for the Danish Girl
Using Versus Doing History in the Contemporary Biographical Novel
II. Archives
Real Witches, Real Life
Gardens of Memory: Ghosts, Grounds, and the Archives
Pilgrim's Progress: Researching The Secret Chord
The Afronaut Archives: Reports from a Future Zambia
Historical Fiction and the Fine Art of Error
III. Genres
Historical Fiction, World-building, and the Short Story
War in a Woman's Voice
Alternate-history Novels and Other Counterfactual Fictions
Last Camp
Historical Impressionism and Signs of Life: The Blessing and Burden of Writing the Past
Novelties: A Historian's Field Notes from Fiction
Sorting Fact from Fiction: A Novelist Researches the Lapérouse Expedition
Am I Chinese Enough to Tell this Story?
Afterword: I Met a Man Who Wasn't There
