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The female figure in contemporary historical fiction

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The female figure in contemporary historical fiction/ edited by Katherine Cooper and Emma Short.
other author:	Cooper, Katherine.
Published:	[Basingstoke] :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 241 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Historical fiction, English - History and criticism. - 21st century -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137283382
ISBN:	9781137283382 (electronic bk.)

The female figure in contemporary historical fiction
The female figure in contemporary historical fiction[electronic resource] /edited by Katherine Cooper and Emma Short. - [Basingstoke] :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 241 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Histories and Heroines: The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction; K.Cooper & E.Short -- PART I: HISTORICAL WOMEN : REVISIONING REAL LIVES -- The Virtuosa and the Ventriloquists: Janice Galloway's Clara; T.Jamieson -- Making Up, or Making Over: Reconstructing the Modern Female Author; E.Short -- A Deviant Device: Diary Dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; K.Brindle -- Whoso List to Hunt: The Literary Fortunes of Anne Boleyn; J.Crane -- PART II: IMAGINED HISTORIES : ROMANCING FICTIONAL HEROINES -- Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills and Boon Historical Romance; A.Burge -- Sexual F(r)ictions: Pornography in Neo-Victorian Women's Fiction; N.Muller -- Re-Claiming Anne Damer/Re-Covering Sapphic History: Emma Donoghue's Life Mask; C.O'Callaghan -- Things Slipping between Past and Present: Feminism and the Gothic in Kate Mosse's Sepulchre; K.Cooper -- PART III: REWRITING HISTORY : REASSERTING THE FEMALE -- Imagine. Investigate. Intervene? A Consideration of Feminist Intent and Metafictive Invention in the Historical Fictions of A.S. Byatt and Marina Warner; S.Harris -- In Defence of Fiction: History and Imagination in Kate Grenville's The Secret River and The Lieutenant; A.Gething -- Difficulties, Differences and Discontinuities: Reading Women's Historical Fiction; D.Wallace -- Writing Historical Fiction: Thoughts from Two Practitioners; S.Sellers & A.Thompson.

From "The Other Boleyn Girl" to "Fingersmith", this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. Examining the female figure in these contemporary fictions, it looks at the ways in which authors intervene in the historical process to present these women, real and imagined. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history. Featuring chapters by newer scholars alongside established figures in the field such as Diana Wallace, as well as an interview with authors Susan Sellers and Alice Thompson, it engages with debates around history, literary value and the postmodern to illustrate the importance of these female figures.

ISBN: 9781137283382 (electronic bk.)

Source: 514502Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

939841
Historical fiction, English
--History and criticism.--21st centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR830.H5 / F46 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 823.08109092

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