Example of Mills & Boons Historical fictionIn the twentieth century the historical novel tended to split its readership between male and female readers. The gendering of historical fiction came before the rise of gender history and although there is a risk here...
Sally Potter’s film adaptation of ‘Orlando’ staring Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crip, and Jimmy Somerville (2010).In The Historical Novel (2010) Jerome De Groot argues that during the twentieth century the historical novel has become more prevalent but also...
The Wild Irish GirlOxford World’s Classics series I began my previous post with a quote summarising Georg Lukács claim to the distinctiveness of nineteenth century historical fiction and to how he argued for the role of academic and popular history in its...
Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge by Frederick BarnardIn the eighteenth century historical fiction was a familiar genre predominantly in France but soon to move over to England as well in the form of translations. It was, however, often considered a slightly...
In 1671 César de Saint-Réal published a treatise on secret history entitled Traités historiques de l’ usage de l’ histoire. The treatise proposed that individual psychology and human motives causes historical processes to take on their form. One year later he...
The reputation of English wine has improved dramatically in recent years, and even some world-class wines are being produced, but in general England is not thought of as a centre of viticulture.So it’s not surprising to find that in London in 1364, at the tavern...
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