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Introduction: Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality
Rethinking History, 2005In a well-known essay on history and fiction, Michel de Certeau maintained that ‘fiction is the repressed other of historical discourse.’ Why?
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Fictional History and Historical Fiction
Romance Philology, 2012History and Fiction. From the earliest examples of history-writing in the European tradition, the writing of history has been intertwined with fi ction. To the Greeks history was a branch of literature, but this did not imply that it was fi ction, merely that it was a form of letters.
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Abstract This chapter charts the trajectory of US historical fiction from the Second World War to the early decades of the twenty-first century. Prominent mid-twentieth-century historical novelists produced books that were well researched and often meticulously detailed, embodying a belief in the past as a knowable, documentable field ...
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Science Fiction, Historical Fiction and Religion Fiction?
Implicit Religion, 2014Afterword
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Fictional History and Historical Fiction
1991Abstract Much As They May Deplore The Fact, historians have no monopoly on the past and no franchise as its privileged interpreters to the public. It may have been different once, but there can no longer be any doubt about the relegation of the historian to a back seat.
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2020
During the post-emancipation era in Russia and the United States, authors created nostalgic historical fiction that romanticized Russian serfdom and American slavery. This chapter compares the short stories of white, Southern authors Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with the mass-oriented historical fiction of Russian aristocrats Grigorii ...
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During the post-emancipation era in Russia and the United States, authors created nostalgic historical fiction that romanticized Russian serfdom and American slavery. This chapter compares the short stories of white, Southern authors Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with the mass-oriented historical fiction of Russian aristocrats Grigorii ...
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