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...
The Evolution of the web is an amazing graphic timeline that should answer all questions about the web techologies. The colour bands visualise the interaction between web technologies and browsers showing the powerful web apps available. By clicking on the tabs you...
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...
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