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The female figure in contemporary historical fiction

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility:	CooperKatherine.,
[NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility:	ShortEmma.,
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	[Basingstoke]
[NT 47263] Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2012
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 241 p.)ill. :
[NT 47266] Subject:	Historical fiction, English - History and criticism. - 21st century -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Women in literature. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137283382
[NT 47265] Notes:	Description based on print version record.
[NT 51398] Summary:	From "The Other Boleyn Girl" to "Fingersmith", this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. Examining the female figure in these contemporary fictions, it looks at the ways in which authors intervene in the historical process to present these women, real and imagined. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history. Featuring chapters by newer scholars alongside established figures in the field such as Diana Wallace, as well as an interview with authors Susan Sellers and Alice Thompson, it engages with debates around history, literary value and the postmodern to illustrate the importance of these female figures.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9781137283382electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	1137283386electronic bk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	Histories and Heroines: The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction; K.Cooper & E.Short PART I: HISTORICAL WOMEN : REVISIONING REAL LIVES The Virtuosa and the Ventriloquists: Janice Galloway's Clara; T.Jamieson Making Up, or Making Over: Reconstructing the Modern Female Author; E.Short A Deviant Device: Diary Dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; K.Brindle Whoso List to Hunt: The Literary Fortunes of Anne Boleyn; J.Crane PART II: IMAGINED HISTORIES : ROMANCING FICTIONAL HEROINES Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills and Boon Historical Romance; A.Burge Sexual F(r)ictions: Pornography in Neo-Victorian Women's Fiction; N.Muller Re-Claiming Anne Damer/Re-Covering Sapphic History: Emma Donoghue's Life Mask; C.O'Callaghan Things Slipping between Past and Present: Feminism and the Gothic in Kate Mosse's Sepulchre; K.Cooper PART III: REWRITING HISTORY : REASSERTING THE FEMALE Imagine. Investigate. Intervene? A Consideration of Feminist Intent and Metafictive Invention in the Historical Fictions of A.S. Byatt and Marina Warner; S.Harris In Defence of Fiction: History and Imagination in Kate Grenville's The Secret River and The Lieutenant; A.Gething Difficulties, Differences and Discontinuities: Reading Women's Historical Fiction; D.Wallace Writing Historical Fiction: Thoughts from Two Practitioners; S.Sellers & A.Thompson.

The female figure in contemporary historical fiction
The female figure in contemporary historical fiction / edited by Katherine Cooper and Emma Short. - [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 241 p.) ; ill..
Histories and Heroines: The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction; K.Cooper & E.Short.
Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references and index..
ISBN 9781137283382ISBN 1137283386
Historical fiction, EnglishWomen in literature.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh -- History and criticism. -- 21st century

Cooper, Katherine.

The female figure in contemporary historical fiction
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