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  1. Fabricating History
    English Writers on the French Revolution
    Author: Friedman, Barton R.
    Published: [1988]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400859344
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    Subjects: Englische Literatur; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 / Literature and the wars; Revolutions in literature; War in literature; Literature and history / France; Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 / Historiography; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Französisch; Französische Revolution <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
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    Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of history and to fashion order, however fragile, out of its apparent chaos. The authors he discusses--Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy--found in the French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradigm of history than their own "Glorious Revolution." To them the French Revolution seemed universally significant--a microcosm, in short. For these writers maintaining the distinction between "history" and "fiction" was less important than making sense of epochal historical events in symbolic terms. Their works on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars occupy the boundary between history and fiction, and Fabricating History advances the current lively discussion of that boundary.At the same time, this work explores questions about narrative strategies, as they are shaped by, or shape, events. Narratives incorporate the ideological and metaphysical preconceptions that the authors bring with them to their writing. "This is not to argue," Professor Friedman says, "that historical narratives are only about the mind manufacturing them or, more narrowly yet, about themselves as mere linguistic constructs. They illumine both the time and place they seek to re-create and, if by indirection, the time and place of the mind thinking them into being."Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
  2. Traces of Another Time
    History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction
    Author: Scanlan, Margaret
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    ISBN: 9781400860937
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    Subjects: Englische Literatur; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Political fiction, English / History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 / Great Britain / Influence; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction; Historical fiction, English; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature; Political fiction, English; Literatur; Weltkrieg (1939-1945); Historischer Roman; Geschichtsbild; Roman; Geschichte <Motiv>; Politischer Roman; Englisch; Politik <Motiv>
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    Is the historical novel the outmoded genre that some people imagine--form inseparable from romanticism, nationalism, and the nineteenth century? In this stimulating volume, Margaret Scanlan answers a convincing "no," as she demonstrates the relevance of historical novels by well-known figures such as Anthony Burgess, John le Carr, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, and Paul Scott, as well as by less well established writers such as Joseph Hone and Thomas Kilroy. Scanlan shows what a skeptical, experimental approach to the relationship between history and fiction these writers adopt and how radically they depart from the mimetic conventions usually associated with historical novels. Drawing on contemporary historiography and literary theory, Scanlan defines the problem of writing historical fiction at a time when people see the subject of history as fragmentary and uncertain.

    The writers she discusses avoid the great events of history to concentrate on its margins: what interests them is history as it is experienced, usually reluctantly, by human beings who would rather be doing something else. The first section of the book looks at fictional representations of England's difficult history in Ireland; the second examines spies, aliens, and the loss of public confidence; and the third probes the theme of Apocalypse, nuclear or otherwise, and depicts the collapse of the British Empire as an instance of the greatly diminished importance of Western culture in the world.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions.

    The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
  3. Victorian reformations
    historical fiction and religious controversy, 1820-1900
    Author: Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana

  4. Science and religion in neo-Victorian novels
    eye of the ichthyosaur
    Author: Glendening, John
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780415819435
    RVK Categories: HN 1101 ; HN 1331
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 9
    Subjects: Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Science in literature; Religion in literature; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; English fiction / 21st century / History and criticism; Englisch; Roman; Wissenschaft <Motiv>; Religion <Motiv>
    Scope: 261 S.
  5. Historical romance fiction
    heterosexuality and perfomativity
    Author: Fletcher, Lisa
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Aldershot [u.a.]

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  6. Science and religion in neo-Victorian novels
    eye of the ichthyosaur
    Author: Glendening, John
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780415819435
    RVK Categories: HN 1101 ; HN 1331
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 9
    Subjects: Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Science in literature; Religion in literature; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; English fiction / 21st century / History and criticism; Englisch; Roman; Wissenschaft <Motiv>; Religion <Motiv>
    Scope: 261 S.
  7. Making history new
    modernism and historical narrative
    Author: O'Malley, Seamus
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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  8. Historical romance fiction
    heterosexuality and perfomativity
    Author: Fletcher, Lisa
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Aldershot [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780754662020; 0754662020
    RVK Categories: HN 1301
    Subjects: Love stories, English / History and criticism; Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Speech in literature; Heterosexuality in literature; Heterosexuality in literature; Historical fiction, English; Love stories, English; Speech in literature; Historischer Roman; Englisch; Geschlechterrolle
    Scope: 177 S., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-171) and index
  9. Making history new
    modernism and historical narrative
    Author: O'Malley, Seamus
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780199364251
    RVK Categories: HM 1031 ; HM 1101 ; HM 1301
    Subjects: Modernism (Literature) / England; Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) / History / 20th century; Geschichte; Historischer Roman; Moderne; Englisch; Historische Literatur
    Other subjects: West, Rebecca (1892-1983); Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924); Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 271 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  10. Reading historical fiction
    the revenant and remembered past
    Contributor: Mitchell, Kate (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

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    Contributor: Mitchell, Kate (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780230343139; 0230343139
    Subjects: Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Literature and history / Great Britain; History in literature; Recollection (Psychology) in literature; English fiction / Periodization
    Scope: XII, 243 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. 220 - 239

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  11. Neo-Victorian Families
    Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics
    Author: Kohlke, Marie-Luise
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9401207240; 9789401207249
    Series: Neo-Victorian Series, 2
    Subjects: English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; English fiction / 21st century / History and criticism; Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Families; Gender expression; Sex role; Steampunk culture; Literatur; Steampunk culture; Families; Sex role; Gender expression; Rezeption; Familie; Geschlechterrolle
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    Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introducing Neo-Victorian Family Matters:Cultural Capital and Reproduction; PART I Endangered Childhoods and Lost Futures:Filthiness and Philanthropy; 1. From London's East End to West Baltimore:How the Victorian Slum Narrative Shapes The Wire; 2. Failing Families: Echoes of Nineteenth-CenturyChild Rescue Discourse in Contemporary Debatesaround Child Protection; 3. The Figure of the Child in Neo-Victorian Queer Families; 4. Neo-Victorian Childhoods:Re-Imagining the Worst of Times

    PART II Performing (Im)Possible Happy Families:Deconstruction and Reconstruction5. Deconstructing the Victorian Family?Trying to Reach Cloud Nine; 6. The Cratchits on Film:Neo-Victorian Visions of Domesticity; 7. The Rise and Fall of the Forsytes:From Neo-Victorian to Neo-Edwardian Marriage; 8. The Lost Mother and the Enclosed Lady: Gender andDomesticity in MTV's Adaptation of Wuthering Heights; 9. Monarchs and Patriarchs: Angela Carter's Recreationof the Victorian Family in The Magic Toyshop; PART III The Mirror of Society:Familial Trauma, Dissolution and Transformation

    10. Family Traumas and Serial Killingin Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem11. Family Trauma and Reconfigured Families:Philip Pullman's Neo-Victorian Detective Series; 12. "That heartbroken island of incestuous hatreds":Famine and Family in Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea; 13. (In)Visible Disability in Neo-Victorian Families; 14. More Than Kith and Less Than Kin: Queering the Familyin Sarah Waters's Neo-Victorian Fictions; Contributors; Index

    Tracing representations of re-imagined Victorian families in literature, film and television, and social discourse, this collection, the second volume in Rodopi's Neo-Victorian Series, analyses the historical trajectory of persistent but increasingly contested cultural myths that coalesce around the heterosexual couple and nuclear family as the supposed 'normative' foundation of communities and nations, past and present. It sheds new light on the significance of families as a source of fluctuating cultural capital, deployed in diverse arenas from political debates, social policy and identity p
  12. Fiction against history
    Scott as storyteller
    Author: Kerr, James
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Walter Scott was acutely conscious of the fictionality of his historical novels. In this 1989 book, James Kerr reads the Waverley novels as a grand fictional project constructed around the relationship between the language of fiction and historical... more

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    Walter Scott was acutely conscious of the fictionality of his historical novels. In this 1989 book, James Kerr reads the Waverley novels as a grand fictional project constructed around the relationship between the language of fiction and historical reality. We can see throughout Scott's novels a tension between the romancer, recasting the events of the past in accordance with recognizably literary logics, and the historian, presenting an accurate account of the past. This contradiction, reflected in Scott's generic mixture of romance and realism, remains unresolved, even in the most self-conscious of his works. It is in this interplay of fiction and history that Professor Kerr identifies the rich complexity of the Waverley novels

     
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    ISBN: 9780511627590
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    RVK Categories: HL 4265
    Subjects: Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Fiktion; Erzähltechnik; Historischer Roman
    Other subjects: Scott, Walter / 1771-1832 / Fictional works; Scott, Walter (1771-1832)
    Scope: 1 online resource (ix, 142 pages)
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    The historical novel and the production of the past -- The reemplotment of rebellion: Waverly and Old mortality -- Waverley: the romance of real history -- Old mortality: old epitaphs and new stories -- Historical fable and political fantasy: The heart of Midlothian and The bride of Lammermoor -- The heart of Midlothian: revision and reform -- The bride of Lammermoor: history as dreamwork -- Redgauntlet: the historical romance as metafiction
  13. Making history new
    modernism and historical narrative
    Author: O'Malley, Seamus
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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  14. History and the early English novel
    matters of fact from Bacon to Defoe
    Author: Mayer, Robert
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This new study of the origins of the English novel argues that the novel emerged from historical writing. Examining historical writers and forms frequently neglected by earlier scholars, Robert Mayer shows that in the seventeenth century historical... more

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    This new study of the origins of the English novel argues that the novel emerged from historical writing. Examining historical writers and forms frequently neglected by earlier scholars, Robert Mayer shows that in the seventeenth century historical discourse embraced not only 'history' in its modern sense, but also fiction, polemic, gossip, and marvels. Mayer thus explains why Defoe's narratives were initially read as history. It is the acceptance of the claims to historicity, the study argues, that differentiates Defoe's fictions from those of writers like Thomas Deloney and Aphra Behn, important writers who nevertheless have figured less prominently than Defoe in discussions of the novel. Mayer ends by exploring the theoretical implications of the history-fiction connection. His study makes an important contribution to the continuing debate about the emergence of what we now call the novel in Britain in the eighteenth century

     
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    ISBN: 9780511582066
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    RVK Categories: HK 1274 ; HK 1301 ; HK 1935
    Series: Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 33
    Subjects: Geschichte; Wissen; English fiction / 18th century / History and criticism; Literature and history / Great Britain / History / 18th century; Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; Fiktion; Roman; Historischer Roman; Geschichtsschreibung; Englisch
    Other subjects: Defoe, Daniel / 1661?-1731 / Knowledge / History; Bacon, Francis / 1561-1626 / Influence; Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 246 pages)
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    1. Baconian historiography: the contours of historical discourse in seventeenth-century England -- 2. "Idle Trash" or "Reliques of Something True"?: the fate of Brut and Arthur and the power of tradition -- 3. The History of Myddle: memory, history, and power -- 4. Lifewriting and historiography, fiction and fact: Baxter, Clarendon, and Hutchinson on the English Civil War -- 5. The secret history of the last Stuart kings -- 6. "Knowing strange things": historical discourse in the century before Robinson Crusoe -- 7. "History" before Defoe: Nashe, Deloney, Behn, Manley -- 8. Defoe's historical practice: from "The Ages Humbles Servant" to Major Alexander Ramkins -- 9. "Facts that are form'd to touch the mind": Defoe's narratives as forms of historical discourse -- 10. From history to the novel: the reception of Defoe
  15. Neo-Georgian fiction
    reimagining the eighteenth century in the contemporary historical novel
    Contributor: Lipski, Jakub (Herausgeber); Maciulewicz, Joanna (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    Introduction: Delineating the neo-Georgian / Jakub Lipski and Joanna Maciulewicz -- Peter Ackroyd's neo-Georgian fiction : reconstructing "the Age of Disguise" / Jakub Lipski -- Defoe's foes : the author as character / Daniel Cook -- Beyond... more

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    Introduction: Delineating the neo-Georgian / Jakub Lipski and Joanna Maciulewicz -- Peter Ackroyd's neo-Georgian fiction : reconstructing "the Age of Disguise" / Jakub Lipski -- Defoe's foes : the author as character / Daniel Cook -- Beyond terracentric history : eighteenth-century slave trade in Barry Unsworth's Sacred hunger / Przemysław Uściński -- "Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind - And through the eye correct the heart" : re-writing the pictorial narrative of A harlot's progress / M-C. Newbould -- The blind man and the rainbow : vicarious experience and libertinism in The skull and the nightingale / Tymon Adamczewski -- Renarrating women's stories in Imogen Hermes Gowar's The mermaid and Mrs. Hancock / Joanna Maciulewicz "This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical attention. The essays included in this collection study the ways in which the selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels recreate the Georgian period in order to view its ideologies through the lens of such modern critical theories as performativity, post-colonialism, feminism or visual theories. They also demonstrate the rich repertoire of subgenres of neo-Georgian fiction, ranging from biographical fiction, epistolary novels to magical realism. The included studies of the diverse novelistic conventions used to re-contextualise the Georgian reality reflect the way we see its relevance and relation to the present and trace the indebtedness of the new forms of the contemporary novel to the traditional novelistic genres"--

     
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    Contributor: Lipski, Jakub (Herausgeber); Maciulewicz, Joanna (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367430146; 9781032003894
    Series: Routledge focus on literature
    Subjects: Historical fiction, English / History and criticism; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; English fiction / 21st century / History and criticism
    Scope: ix, 128 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index