Historical AND (Fiction OR Novel) - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Book by Everett Zimmerman; Cornell University Press, 1996

Subjects:

English Fiction--18th Century--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Historiography--Great Britain--History--18th Century, History In Literature, Literature And History--Great Britain--History--18th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the fictional narrative and the historical narrative" p. 7 . He subsequently...concerns, as well as precursors to the historical novel in the mode of Scott. Haywood...somewhat differing defenses of the historical powers of the romance or novel is...
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On the Historical Novel

Book by Alessandro Manzoni, Sandra Bermann; University of Nebraska Press, 1984

Subjects:

Epic Literature--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...graphical references and index. I. Historical fiction. I. Title. PN344I. M3I3...history and the recognition that historical and fictional writing might rest...historical tragedy.To be sure, "The historical novel does not suffer, as do the...
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The American Historical Novel

Book by Ernest E. Leisy; University of Oklahoma Press, 1950

Subjects:

American Fiction--History And Criticism, Fiction, Historical Fiction, United States--History--Fiction, United States--History--Fiction--Bibliography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...upon as idle entertainment, the historical novel, by offering instruction in...Historical Novel History Vivified HISTORICAL FICTION is often dismissed as mere...with a pet gorilla! Even in the historical novel proper the relation of fact...
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The Historical Novel: And Other Essays

Book by Brander Matthews; Charles Scribners Sons, 1901

Subjects:

Archer, William--1856-1924, Bunner, H. C--(Henry Cuyler)--1855-1896, Daudet, Alphonse--1840-1897, Drama--History And Criticism, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...is no doubt that in France the historical novel is not cherished. No one...historical fiction into the actual historical novel and the novel in which history...dwell on the deficiencies of the historical novel is not to propose that only...
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Archival Reflections: Postmodern Fiction of the Americas (Self-Reflexivity, Historical Revisionism, Utopia)

Book by Santiago Juan-Navarro; Bucknell University Press, 1999

Subjects:

American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction, Spanish American--History And Criticism, Postmodernism (Literature)--Latin America, Postmodernism (Literature)--United States, Spanish American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in the context of postmod- ern historical fiction. The chapter focuses on...Spanish-American and U.S. post- modern historical fiction. Unlike much of the theory...of history. Although postmodern historical novels problematize Spiress view...

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The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000

Journal article by Loretta Stec; CLIO, Vol. 36, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...British Women Writers, 1900-2000 that "historical fiction is a kind of oxymoron" in...authoritatively titled study The Historical Novel (1962) on the emergence of...the swashbuckling adventure novel, historical tales that participate in romance...
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The Afterlife of Victorian Sexuality: Foucault and Neo-Victorian Historical Fiction

Journal article by Jonathan Loesberg; CLIO, Vol. 36, 2007

Subjects:

British history, 1815-1914--Portrayals, Byatt, A.S.--Criticism and interpretation, Byatt, A.S.--Works, Fanny by Gaslight (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Foucault, Michel--Criticism and interpretation, Foucault, Michel--Works, Fowles, John (British novelist)--Criticism and interpretation, Fowles, John (British novelist)--Works, Historical fiction--Criticism and interpretation, Possession (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Sadleir, Michael--Criticism and interpretation, Sadleir, Michael--Works, Sex (Psychology)--Portrayals, Sexuality--Portrayals, The French Lieutenant's Woman (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...fictional characters play roles in historical events and interact with famous...although intrusive narration drawing historical conclusions based on the fiction...effect of this change is to make the historical fiction not a comment from the present...
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The Novel in a Time of Terror: Middlesex, History, and Contemporary American Fiction

Journal article by Samuel Cohen; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 53, 2007

Subjects:

Eugenides, Jeffrey--Criticism and interpretation, Middlesex (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Middlesex, a critically acclaimed historical novel, has been praised as an expansive...gap for understanding the novels historical sense lies instead in the nature...in a way that is specific to its historical imagination, an imagination itself...
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The Novel and Public Truth: Saul Bellow's the Dean's December

Journal article by Martin Corner; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 28, 2000

Subjects:

Bellow, Saul--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fiction--Social aspects, Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)--Social aspects, The Dean's December (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...all the necessary tools; he feels the historical obligation of the American man of letters...individual perception, the perspective of the novel will have location and direction; it will...individuality it represents. But because fiction can go beyond the individuality which...
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Fables of the Novel: French Fiction since 1990

Journal article by Andrew Sobanet; French Forum, Vol. 28, 2003

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Fables of the Novel: French Fiction since 1990 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of building literary monuments during a historical moment when even national monuments may...students of literature. Fables of the Novel not only provides its readers with very...interested in following trends in contemporary fiction as well as for readers investigating the...

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The Brief History of a Historical Novel: Thomas Jefferson Was an Enigma to Everyone He Met. A Century and a Half after His Death, on Writer Strives to Understand, If Not the Man Himself, Then at Least the World as It Knew Him

Magazine article by Max Byrd; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 31, Autumn 2007

Subjects:

Historical novels--Criticism and interpretation, Jefferson, Thomas--Authorship

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The best examples of this kind of historical novel are those by the great Rafael...Captain Blood, but the other kind of historical novel: a sober, factually accurate...me to start was a book called The Historical Novel (1962) by the Marxist critic...
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Fiction Based on Fact: Historical Fiction Newspaper Project Stresses Creativity, Solid Research

Magazine article; Reading Today, Vol. 20, February 2003

Subjects:

Historical fiction--Study and teaching, International Reading Association--Achievements and awards, Writing--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Reading and writing are at the very heart of the historical fiction newspaper project," Rossi says. "The novel provides...of one exciting scene in the book and has additional historical details. * Book review--This provides a short summary...
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Eminently Victorian: A Novel about the Early History of Psychiatry Impresses George Walden with Its Diligence, but Leaves Him Wondering If Uprightness, Sobriety and Industry Can Ever Produce More Than Decent Fiction

Magazine article by George Walden; New Statesman, Vol. 134, September 5, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Human Traces (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...thumb of the honesty of a historical novel that the less superior...which it is largely set. His novel, of Victorian length, has...the best sense improving. As fiction, it suffers from the defects...not unfamiliar in English fiction as a whole: namely whether...anything more than a decent novel. George Waldens most recent...
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The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: 7 the Numinous in Modern British Fiction

Magazine article by Chris Arthur; Contemporary Review, Vol. 269, July 1996

Subjects:

English literature--Moral and ethical aspects, Holy, The--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Spirituality in literature--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in which the gods seem always to be close at hand. Avrom Fleishman, who considers Mary Renault to be one of the finest historical novelists of the century, thinks that her skill at recreating an ancient sense of the sacred is such that readers are...
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History, Sex, and Physics - the Historical Novel Can Sharpen Our Vision of Elusive Aspects of Existence, Even If Volpi's Exploration of Nazi- Era Physics Does Not Quite Succeed

Magazine article by Steve Dowden; World and I, Vol. 18, January 2003

Subjects:

In Search of Klingsor (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...will always find its way in. But historical fiction may be a special case. Just...bitter and uncompromising? Or is historical fiction more emphatically fiction...necessarily germane to the task of a historical novel. Volpis mysterious figure...

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Road Fiction Takes a New Direction; (1)THE ARTS (2) Jonathan Safran Foer Based His Best-Selling Novel, Everything Is Illuminated, on His Student Quest to Find the Mystery Woman in a Family Photograph. Now He Is Retracing His Steps for a BBC Documentary, and Hollywood Is Making the Film

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 26, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...was temping on a switchboard in New York. The novel now seems set to become a sort of Ukrainian road movie, its rich historical sections sacrificed to the cinematic urge for momentum. "The film," Foer admits, "moves very far from the book." He...
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`Grant' Victorious as Historical Fiction

Newspaper article by Woody West; The Washington Times, October 21, 2000

Subjects:

Grant, Ulysses S.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

`Grant victorious as historical fiction by Woody West...literature rather than a novel in the historical fiction genre - where the past is...offend those who lean more to the historical than to the fictive. Woody West...
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Man, Woman, Love, Death in Three Centuries; 'Fountain' a Refreshing Confluence of Romance, Historical Fiction and Sci-Fi

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 22, 2006

Subjects:

Jackman, Hugh, Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Weisz, Rachel

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Centuries; Fountain a Refreshing Confluence of Romance, Historical Fiction and Sci-Fi. Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance...of the present-day tale. A romance, a historical fiction and a science-fiction film: "The Fountain" has something for everyone...
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Living History Writer Turns Re-enactor for His Research on Civil War Novel

Newspaper article by Daniel J. Johnson; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 9, 2006

Subjects:

Journalists, Soldiers

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...completed the play and have since begun work on a book of historical fiction on the same subject: the experiences of a group...and classmate, Mark. "We had read a lot of historical fiction stories when we were in middle school and junior high...
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CULTURE : Writer Romps through the Pages of History; Former Birmingham Writer William Palmer Is about to Publish His First Novel for Eight Years Terry Grimley Met Him in London

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 6, 2005

Subjects:

Palmer, William

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Singin the Blues. As a lifelong jazz fan, this is one historical shift Palmer is less enthusiastic about. ``That was...debate is currently raging about the validity of the ``historical novel. A book set in the 18th century would clearly fall...

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Novel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...reality has been the theme of many great novels and the historical development of the novel continually reflects this dual...in support of Charles Edward Stuart, inaugurated the historical novel. Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice (1813) and...
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Bosboom-Toussaint, Anna Louisa Geertruida

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...published her first novel, Almagro, in 1837. Her perceptive historical fiction was written in ornate and purposely archaic style...of her chief works treated modern life; this epistolary novel, Majoor Frans (1874, tr. Major Frank, 1886), exhibits...
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Styron, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Virginia led by Nat Turner . Because Styrons account does not strictly adhere to historical fact and because he was a white man depicting a black mans experiences, the novel elicited harsh criticism, especially from black intellectuals. Styrons other...
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Shimazaki Toson

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...nature; his masterpiece, Yoake no mae before the dawn, a historical novel, traces the growth of modern Japan through a fictionalized...of his fathers life. See J. A. Walker, The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism...
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Enquist, Per Olov

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

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