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female figure in contemporary historical fiction
xiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
From 'The Other Boleyn Girl' to 'Fingersmith', this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. 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.
Introduction: Histories and heroines: the female figure in contemporary historical fiction / Katherine Cooper and Emma Short -- Historical women: revisioning real lives -- The virtuosa and the ventriloquists: Janice Galloway's Clara / Theresa Jamieson -- Making up, or making over: reconstructing the modern female author / Emma Short -- A deviant device: diary dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace / Kym Brindle -- 'Whoso list to hunt': the literary fortunes of Anne Boleyn / Julia Crane -- Imagines histories: romancing fictional heroines -- Do knights still rescue damsels in distress?: reimagining the medieval in Mills & Boon historical romance / Amy Burge -- Sexual f(r)ictions: pornography in neo-Victorian women's fiction / Nadine Muller -- Re-claiming Anne Damer/re-covering Sapphic history: Emma Donoghue's Life Mask / Claire O'Callaghan -- Things slipping between past and present: feminism and the gothic in Kate Mosse's Sepulchre / Katherine Cooper -- 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 / Siân Harris -- In defence of fiction: history and imagination in Kate Grenville's The Secret River and The Lieutenant / Anna Gething -- Difficulties, discontinuities, and differences: reading women's historical fiction / Diana Wallace -- Writing historical fiction: thoughts from two practitioners / Alice Thompson and Susan Sellers.
edited by Katherine Cooper and Emma Short.
Includes bibliographical references and index.