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Explores a variety of literary of works engaging with history and that pair well with historical readings.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brackett, Virginia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY : EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Historical fiction > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume
  • On Historical Fiction
  • Critical Contexts
  • More Than Sixty Years Hence: Historicizing the Historical Novel
  • Historical Fiction and Its Critics: From Sir Walter Scott to Contemporary Young Adult Literature
  • Imagining the Other: Female Protagonists of Young Adult Historical Fiction Voicing Alternative Perspectives
  • Identity Formation in Young Adult Holocaust Historical Fiction: Comparative Analysis of Lois Lowry's Number the Stars and Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed
  • Critical Readings
  • Historical Fiction: A Comparative Analysis of Medieval Romance and Scott's Ivanhoe
  • Tales of Other Times: The Gothic Novel as Historical Fiction
  • Made of Legend and History: The Robin Hood Tradition in Young Adult Literature
  • Through a Glass, Lightly: Translating History for Young Readers
  • James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Scholastic: Reading Mary Pope Osborne's Standing in the Light as Reimagining the Power of Cross-Cultural Friendship in the American Historical Contact Narrative
  • "We Must Have Some Sport": The Afflicted Girls of Salem in Fiction for Young Adults
  • Historical Crossover in Chinese and Chinese-American Fiction: The Outlaws, Plus One Cross-dresser
  • Representation of the American Civil War in Contemporary Historical Fiction for Young Adults: Why We Read about the Civil War
  • "Sixty Million and More": Family and Sacrifice in the African-American Historical Novel
  • New Voices of History: The Depression Era and Historical Fiction in America
  • Meeting the Mirabals in In the Time of the Butterflies: Real Figures in Historical Biographical Fiction
  • Resources
  • Further Reading
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.