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Title: Historical Fiction Now
Condition: New
Description: Historical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre's character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century. Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics, academics, and several authors writing across these categories, the volume explores the nature of reading, writing, and writing about historical fiction in the present moment while meditating on some of the myriad contexts of the genre. What inspires writers to choose particular moments, events, and personalities as the subjects of their fictional imaginings, and with what implications for their readers' understanding of the present? How do contemporary scholars approach the making and reception of historical fiction, and how do these approaches resonate with writers' own preoccupations in the process of invention? What might scholars of a genre with a long and complex history learn from its contemporary practitioners? Conversely, how do novelists understand their own historical fictions (if at all) in relation to the theoretical and critical traditions shaping the work of their academic colleagues? The collection features an original essay by Hilary Mantel on the making of the Wolf Hall trilogy as well as contributions from internationally known novelists such as George Saunders, Namwali Serpell, Maaza Mengiste, and Téa Obreht, among others.
Author: Mark Eaton
EAN: 9780198877035
Contributor: Mark Eaton (Volume editor), Bruce Holsinger (Volume editor)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 019887703X
ISBN: 9780198877035
Item Height: 223mm
Item Length: 145mm
Item Width: 20mm
Genre: Literary Criticism
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 08/17/2023
Language: English
Item Weight: 422g
Type: Communication Studies
Topic: Historical Fiction, Fiction
Release Year: 2023

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