Nov 24, 2011
Simon Schama’s Dead Certainties (1991)It would seem that the ideas of postmodernism fit the historical fiction model well and has helped to reinvigorate it as a genre and as a place where some historians feel comfortable (to an extent) exploring. In a rather...
Nov 23, 2011
POST 13: Novel Approaches: Postmodernism and historical fiction part 1‘At the core of culture is a continuous dialogue between myth and history, “plain invention” and the “core of historical fact”’ (Slotkin, 229). This quote from Richard Slotkin’s 2005 article...
Nov 22, 2011
The Musketeers Male historical fiction takes a very different form than that intended for a female audience: adventure, warfare, murder mysteries. For the most part this form of historical fiction repeatedly tests the protagonist (usually male) before he is awarded...
Nov 21, 2011
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...
Nov 20, 2011
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...
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