The Contemporary British Historical Novel
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| Author | : M. Boccardi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2009-06-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230240801 |
A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition.
| Author | : Beata Piątek |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : English fiction |
| ISBN | : 9788323338246 |
History, memory and trauma as well as their complex interrelations have been lying at the centre of interdisciplinary academic debates since the end of the previous century. These are also themes with which contemporary writers and other artists are increasingly preoccupied in their work. History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction is an attempt at analysing the relationship between history, memory and trauma in the selected novels of Pat Barker, Sebastian Barry, Kazuo Ishiguro and John Banville. The author examines the notion of memory in a variety of contexts: collective memory in the historical novels of Barker and Barry, individual memory as a foundation of the sense of self in the novels of Banville and Ishiguro, and traumatic memory in the novels of Barry and Ishiguro. By applying the theoretical framework of trauma studies to the work of those renowned writers, History, Memory, Trauma offers new interpretations of their novels. The author demonstrates that contemporary fiction moves beyond mere representation of trauma and engages the reader in the role of co-witness who enables the process of working through trauma.
| Author | : James Acheson |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2017-01-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1474403743 |
Focuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelistsThe Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms arealist, apostmodernist, ahistorical and apostcolonialist fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to more than one of the terms.Also discusses the works of: Maggie OFarrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna.
| Author | : Jonathan Lee |
| Publisher | : Granta Books |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2021-06-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1783786264 |
The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free? Born to a struggling farming family in 1820, Andrew Haswell Green was a self-made man who reshaped Manhattan, built Central Park and turned New York into a modern metropolis. Now, at eighty-three, when he thought the world could hold no more surprises, he is murdered. As the detective assigned to the case traces his ghost across the city, other spectres appear: a wealthy courtesan; a broken-hearted man in a bowler hat; and an ambitious politician, Samuel, whose lifelong friendship was a source of joy and frustration. In a life of industry and restraint, where is the space for love? As restlessly inventive and absorbing as its protagonist, The Great Mistake is the story of a city, and a singular man, transformed by longing.
| Author | : Nick Bentley |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2008-08-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0748630376 |
This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes: (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory and Writing, and (5) Narratives of Cultural Space.
| Author | : E. Rousselot |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2014-11-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137375205 |
This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history.
| Author | : Philip Tew |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2007-06-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0826493203 |
Second edition of this guide for students studying contemporary British writing - written by one of the key academics in the field of modern fiction studies.
| Author | : D. Wallace |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2004-11-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230505945 |
The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat Barker.
| Author | : Samantha J. Rayner |
| Publisher | : UCL Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2021-02-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1787357600 |
The Nonesuch is the name of one of Georgette Heyer’s most famous novels. It means a person or thing without equal, and Georgette Heyer is certainly that. Her historical works inspire a fiercely loyal, international readership and are championed by literary figures such as A. S. Byatt and Stephen Fry. Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction brings together an eclectic range of chapters from scholars all over the world to explore the contexts of Heyer’s career. Divided into four parts – gender; genre; sources; and circulation and reception – the volume draws on scholarship on Heyer and her contemporaries to show how her work sits in a chain of influence, and why it remains pertinent to current conversations on books and publishing in the twenty-first century. Heyer’s impact on science fiction is accounted for, as are the milieu she was writing in, the many subsequent works that owe Heyer’s writing a debt, and new methods for analysing these enduring books. From the gothic to data science, there is something for everyone in this volume; a celebration of Heyer’s ‘nonesuch’ status amongst historical novelists, proving that she and her contemporary women writers deserve to be read (and studied) as more than just guilty pleasures.
| Author | : Suzanne Keen |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780802086846 |
A detailed examination of the growing genre of British fiction featuring archives and archival research, from A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning Possession to the paperback thrillers of popular novelists.
