The female figure in contemporary historical fiction /
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 p...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.