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The Historical Novel by Jerome De Groot, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Jerome De Groot

Current price: $39.95
The Historical Novel by Jerome De Groot, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Historical Novel by Jerome De Groot, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Historical Novel by Jerome De Groot, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Jerome De Groot

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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 works through to postmodern and contemporary historical fictiondifferent genres, such as sensational or 'low' fiction, crime novels, literary works, counterfactual writing and related issues of audience, value, and authenticitythe 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 filmkey 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 globeThe Historical Novelis essential reading for students exploring the interface of history and fiction. | The Historical Novel by Jerome De Groot, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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