From ”naked country” to ”sheltering ice”: Rudy Wiebe’s Revisionist Treatment of John Franklin’s First Arctic Narrative by Susan Birkwood

“…True to the conventions of historical fiction, Wiebe, makes Franklin, himself, a largely peripheral figure, choosing to focus on lesser known participants in the events of 1821.…”
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Transhuman Identities. Rewiring the Domestic Subject by Vanessa Galvin

“…Using evidence derived from Christian teaching, evolutionary biology, historical fiction and contemporary film, I explore how deviations from traditional socio-spatial arrangements produce other modes of domestic life. …”
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The Living Presence of Invisible Agencies and Unseen Powers – The Dramatised and Reinvented History of Peter Ackroyd’s Novels by Petr Chalupský

“…Taking some of the recent tendencies in historical fiction as a frame of reference and focusing on Ackroyd’s novels set solely in the past and both in the past and the present, this article examines how the various sides of his professional self – an historian, literary historian, biographer and writer – combine and intersect in his rendering and re-enacting history as a lively material and inheritance that can still be palpable in and illuminating for our present experience. …”
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Влияниe Вальтера Скотта на историческую прозу А.С. Пушкина: „Роб Рой” и „Капитанская дочка” by Urszula Kizelbach

“…This article analyses the influence of Sir Walter Scott’s historical fiction (Rob Roy) on the development of the historical novel in Russia in the first half of the 19th century, based on the example of Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter. …”
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The Great Trek as Exodus in J.D. Kestell's and N. Hofmeyr's De Voortrekkers of het dagboek van Izak van der Merwe by F. Hale

“… Both before and after the end of the nineteenth century the Great Trek of the 1830s and 1840s was a recurrent theme in historical fiction. Not only in many of the novels written in Dutch and Afrikaans, but also in some which appeared in English, the bravery of the Voortrekkers was a pivotal theme. …”
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Three Approaches toward Historiography: The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Possession, and Waterland by Fariba NoorBakhsh, Fazel Asadi Amjad

“…Following White, Linda Hutcheon defines postmodern historical fiction as the type of fiction that self-reflexively and paradoxically makes use of the notion of history and simultaneously denies its truthfulness. …”
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Narativní koherence jako průvodní rys proměn žánru : na příkladu próz s historickou tematikou by Alice Jedličková

“…Drawing on findings in the genre of historical fiction (by F. A. Rokos, P. Chocholoušek and Karel Sabina) it poses the question whether at all, and to what extent narrative coherence may be taken into account in literary communication of the period and whether it may be considered a marker of evolution of the genre. …”
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From the Hood to the White House: The Cultural Imaginary of Presidential Blackness in Head of State by Atalie Gerhard

“…As he challenges racial inequality in the U.S. as well as moral corruption among the élite, he unifies one historical fiction of America. I focus on how the film attributes an anti-establishment legacy to a minority president based on his countercultural identity performances although he remains complicit with foundational institutions of government. …”
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Making Muslim Women Political : Imagining the Wartime Woman in the Russian Muslim Women’s Journal Suyumbika by Danielle Ross

“…Through news articles, historical fiction, and calls to community service, the male and female writers promoted an image of a politically and socially-active woman, who would do her part for the war while being a virtuous Muslim. …”
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Figurações do feminino em Printemps et autres saisons de J.-M. G. Le Clézio by Ana Alexandra Seabra de Carvalho

“…In fact, by using writing both as a mean to self-consciousness and as an attempt to understand others and the universe, he wanders from an aesthetic close to the Nouveau Roman to another that, little by little, recovers, among other aspects, the wonder of fabulous, imaginary, mythological or historical fiction. However, the novelist continues to transform the narrative codes from the past. …”
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Historie letí nad lomenicemi : k zapomenuté povídkové knize Mirka Elpla by Ester Nováková

“…His unrightfully forgotten short-story collection represents the most artistically valuable branch of historical fiction written in the period of the Second World War – combining lyrical prose with psychological insight.…”
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Landscapes of History in the Novels of Lawrence Norfolk by Nagy Ladislav

“…This approach distinguishes Norfolk from much of contemporary historical fiction, albeit at times this strategy might not be wholly satisfactory from a critical perspective. …”
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Thieving Hooks, and the Stories We Tell about Pirates by Manushag N. Powell

“…Because pirate tales as a genre are intensely intertextual and counterfictional, it is often befuddling when the historical record will not align with historical fiction. While it is assumed pirates may well have used prosthetic hooks, there is little reason to believe J. …”
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Confession and the Cultural Turn: Revising the Historical Critique of Lídia Jorge’s The Murmuring Coast by Frans Weiser

“…Expanding Helena Kaufman’s reading of the testimonial as “deliterarization,” I analyze how a slippage of critical terminology over time has equated historical fiction with narrative history. After examining the competing agendas of cultural history and literary postmodernism, I demonstrate how reconceiving Jorge’s historical “annulment” as a productive revision of fiction provides a model of complementary history facilitating interdisciplinary engagement.…”
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Merging Historical Feminist Fiction-Based Research With the Craft of Fiction Writing: Engaging Readers in Complex Academic Topics Through Story by Nancy Taber

“… Drawing from the literature and the historical fiction-based feminist antimilitarist research I conducted in writing my debut novel, A Sea of Spectres, this article discusses the what and why of fiction-based research. …”
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“Tattered Photograph”: Challenges to Postmemory in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated by Ionescu Ambrosie, Ștefan

“…In the case of Jonathan Safran Foer and his debut novel Everything Is Illuminated, a third-generation Jewish-American writing about a highly-fictionalized shtetl of his ancestors, the temptation to fill in the blanks in that history gives way to a magical realist understanding of Jewish life in Western Ukraine and of postmemory, but at the same time sheds light on the difficulties of writing personalized historical fiction vis-a-vis what is considered authentic. …”
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Fracture and fragmentation : towards a politics of the nation in midnight's children and shame by Yeo, Gideon Peng Khiam

“…The thesis will argue that the dialogical encounter between historical texts and historical fiction raises questions on the inherent flaws within the official narratives of history, thus informing us of the difficulty of apprehending the idea of the nation. …”
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Christ in Yaqui Garb: Teresa Urrea’s Christian Theology and Ethic by Ryan Ramsey

“…Yet in academic secondary literature and historical fiction that has arisen around Urrea, she is rarely examined as a Christian exemplar. …”
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The Princess and the Poor Self-Image: An Analysis of Newbery Medal Winners for Gender Bias and Female Underrepresentation Leading into the Twenty-First Century by Melissa A. McCleary, Michael M. Widdersheim

“…The results indicate a general acceptance of strong female characters and a balanced representation of females, regardless of a historical fiction classification. These results suggest that characters in Newbery Medal-winning books represent gender more equally and less stereotypically compared to characters in works of earlier decades.…”
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Lápices y rosas. Un análisis comparativo de dos películas históricas sobre el pasado traumático argentino y español by Malena Corte

“…After traumatic events happen, part of the film industry usually represents facts of that recent past, sometimes through documentaries, sometimes through historical fiction cinema.The proposal of this present work is to make a comparative analysis between the argentine film La noche de los lápices and the spanish film Las trece rosas. …”
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