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Speculum, 1957
Miss Maxine Shore's The Captive Princess is a pious confection put together of ingredients cloyingly familiar to readers of fiction dealing with the early Christian church. The heroine, Gwladys, is ultimately renamed Claudia but not soon enough. Gwladys, daughter of King Caradoc of the Belgic Catuvellauni, is carried away to Roman captivity, along with
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Miss Maxine Shore's The Captive Princess is a pious confection put together of ingredients cloyingly familiar to readers of fiction dealing with the early Christian church. The heroine, Gwladys, is ultimately renamed Claudia but not soon enough. Gwladys, daughter of King Caradoc of the Belgic Catuvellauni, is carried away to Roman captivity, along with
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Greece and Rome, 1936
Does any one ever read Henty nowadays? It is a pity if they do not, for in his unpretentious way he serves as a very good model for one type of historical fiction, and it may upon reflection appear that his is not the worst type to follow. It was his practice to take some historical period of general interest, and into the framework of fact to work the
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Does any one ever read Henty nowadays? It is a pity if they do not, for in his unpretentious way he serves as a very good model for one type of historical fiction, and it may upon reflection appear that his is not the worst type to follow. It was his practice to take some historical period of general interest, and into the framework of fact to work the
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2012
No student of the Victorian historical novel can fail to observe the divergence between the genre’s critical acclaim and popularity in its own time and its relative obscurity now. Charles Reade, author of the acclaimed 1861 best seller The Cloister and the Hearth, is far from the only historical novelist whose reputation with critics and readers is far
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No student of the Victorian historical novel can fail to observe the divergence between the genre’s critical acclaim and popularity in its own time and its relative obscurity now. Charles Reade, author of the acclaimed 1861 best seller The Cloister and the Hearth, is far from the only historical novelist whose reputation with critics and readers is far
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Speculum, 1949
ALTHOUGH the popularity of fiction based, however slightly, on history hardly ever flagged after the impetus given it by the Wizard of the North, the past decade or so would appear to have seen the genre flourish more luxuriantly than at any time since Scott.
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ALTHOUGH the popularity of fiction based, however slightly, on history hardly ever flagged after the impetus given it by the Wizard of the North, the past decade or so would appear to have seen the genre flourish more luxuriantly than at any time since Scott.
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1989
The ambitiousness and guarded optimism with which Warner and his fellow-writers had begun their careers seemed finally to dwindle away in the atmosphere of lowered horizons and anxiety not to be fooled which rather characterised the 1950s — and which, incidentally, exerted such a powerful retrospective influence on subsequent critical views of the ...
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The ambitiousness and guarded optimism with which Warner and his fellow-writers had begun their careers seemed finally to dwindle away in the atmosphere of lowered horizons and anxiety not to be fooled which rather characterised the 1950s — and which, incidentally, exerted such a powerful retrospective influence on subsequent critical views of the ...
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Taking Historical Novels Seriously
The Public Historian, 1984IN THIS SHORT ESSAY I wish to open discussion of a neglected aspect of the transmission of historical understanding to large audiences, to suggest some perspectives on it, and to propose some forms of professional activity that might follow from greater attention to it.
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The Afrofuturist Historical Novel
2019The recent surge of interest in Afrofuturism has resulted in some groundbreaking work looking at the ways technology and race intersect in film, fashion, music and literature, as is evidenced by the important collection of essays "Afrofuturism 2.0" (2016), edited by Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones.
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