Mary Renault, H.D., and Mythic Retellings: The Cultural Politics of Twentieth Century Hellenism by Miranda Dunham-Hickman

“…Like Renault, H.D. and other modernist writers often enlist Hellenism as historical fiction that conjures past worlds—to comment on, and provide alternative vocabulary for issues of, the present. …”
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The Body that Writes: Gender, Class and the Abject Female Body in Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (2013) by Kiriaki - Massoura

“…This article reads Kent’s novel, which draws on painstaking research, as a work of feminist revisionism that is part of a genealogy of historical fiction by and about women that seeks to adopt and indeed adapt the true-crime genre for the recovery of historical women’s voices from the margins, the best-known example of which remains Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (1996). …”
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KENANG-KENANGAN SEORANG GEISHA / by Golden, Arthur, 1956-, author 252586, Abd. Latiff Bidin, translator 638079

The secret scripture / by Barry, Sebastian, 1955-

Journeys : How Travelling Fruit, Ideas and Buildings Rearrange our Environment / by Borasi, Giovanna, 1971-, editor 525463, Amemiya, Kozy, 1947-, editor 525464, Beyer, Erika illustrator 525466, Centre canadien d'architecture, Actar

“…The publication includes 16 stories written in a narrative form similar to historical fiction. The stories featured highlight key concepts critical to understanding the movement of people, animals, objects and ideas and explore the physical impact of this movement on the built environment. …”

Literary Space as a Means of Historical Representation in Contemporary British and Belarusian Fiction by Olga Aleksandrovna Lidenkova

“…The significance of literary visions of space in historical fiction is determined by its primary connection with the notions of culture and identity. …”
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Editorial Enletawa Journal 10.2 by Yuranny Marcela Romero Archila

“…This segment is an enticing complement to this volume, and it provides a space in which the author shares one of his historical fiction stories with the community. …”
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Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy by Mehdi Ghasemi

“…In his “Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality,” Hayden White writes “What we postmodernists are against is a professional historiography.” …”
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Fictions révolutionnaires : représentations audiovisuelles et vidéoludiques de la Révolution française by Hugo ORAIN

“…As historians, historical fiction teaches us what we understand about our past as a society. …”
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« La femme Solitude de Guadeloupe » by Catherine Rovera

“…Relying on archival and unpublished materials, namely the autograph manuscript—partly written in calligraphy—and what remains of the author’s notes and subsequent drafts, as well as his correspondence with his publishers, the present study documents the shift away from epic historical fiction towards a more intimate approach and the imaginary life story of a strong-willed but reluctant heroine characterized by unfathomable vulnerability.…”
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<i>Lincoln in the Bardo</i>: “Uh, NOT a Historical Novel” by Merritt Moseley

“…The author&#8217;s thoughts on historical fiction help to clarify its positioning.…”
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Dítě na plátně minulosti : tři poznámky k protektorátní historické próze pro mládež by Ester Nováková

“…The study focuses on historical fiction for children and young people written during the Protectorate period. …”
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Non-representativeness in corpora: perils, pitfalls and challenges by Thomas Egan

“…It argues that the inclusion in a general corpus of certain text types, such as grammar treatises or works of historical fiction, can lessen the representativeness of the data, especially if the corpus is designed to reflect the linguistic production, as opposed to the linguistic reception, of a speech community. …”
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Georg Lukács, Sylvia Townsend Warner and The Historical Novel

“…This article argues for a radical historicisation of this text as a means to move beyond narrow and prescriptive definitions of historical fiction. For that purpose, it employs Sylvia Townsend Warner’s writings on the topic and her forgotten critical engagement with The Historical Novel and Lukács himself. …”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF NARRATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE HISTORICAL NOVEL NGUYEN DU BY NGUYEN THE QUANG by Nguyễn Thị Thẩm Mỹ

“…We discuss the ideology and theme of the work as well as contribute to affirming the value of the work in the development of the modern Vietnamese novel, especially historical fiction.…”
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Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester by Lisa Fletcher, Rosemary Gaby, Jennifer Kloester

“…It discusses the authors’ approach to teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester in a unit on historical fiction offered at the University of Tasmania in 2010 and analyses student responses to this initiative through examination of selected assessment tasks.…”
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Youth Services Forum: Past, Present, and Future by Shanna Hollich, Allyson Lauer, Amanda Liss

“…The Forum advocates for information access on behalf of Virginia’s young people; fosters the exchange of ideas and information among those who serve this age group; and presents awards to children’s book authors for outstanding writing in historical fiction, biography, and American history. YSF promotes reading as a year-round, life-long activity that is both enjoyable and essential for children of all ages.…”
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The literary creativity of Slovene migrants in Australia in English: The Second Landing by Victoria Zabukovec by Igor Maver

“…It represents a typical and successful example of historical fiction, with elements of fiction and fictionalized biographies, recounting the life experiences of protagonists from various countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. …”
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Settling accounts with history: the Four Seasons, Leonardo Padura by Uriel Quesada

“…In the present article, I discuss those four novels, and show how The Four Seasons may be considered an example of what critic Noé Jitrik has called cathartic historical fiction.…”
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Historické balady Rajmunda Habřiny by Ester Nováková

“…Nevertheless, this work of fiction deserves critical and readerly attention as an example of historical fiction written in the period of the Second World War and of lyrical-psychological prose as well.…”
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