In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical
fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through ...
By examining the feminist interventions of contemporary women writers working in this subgenre, Johnsen advances
the existing critical discussion of women's crime fiction. The writers studied here bring research expertise to bear on their chosen historical settings, creating a powerful ...
Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical
novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises.
Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire,
education, imagination, comedy, history, poetry, and culture. The analyzed works include classical and modern texts and theorists of the past sixty years ranging from Jerome ...
The National Book League was a precursor to the current Booktrust, and was set up
in 1924 by the Society of Bookmen in order to promote reading, particularly among the young. To that end, the NBL issued Reader's Guides on ...
Riveting, historical accounts of daredevils, pilots and brutal madmen that inspire many of today’s cinematic
blockbusters. Step back in time with these thrilling tales that appeared in the pages of the most popular pulp fiction magazines of the 1930’s and ...
In Historical Fictions Hugh Kenner applies his extraordinarily nimble mind and unrivaled style to the
alchemy of speech turning into language, language becoming art, and art finally settling down as culture. A variety of literary topics are addressed in forty-three ...
Lisa Fletcher moves the debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new
ground, testing the claims of speech-act and performativity theorists on everything from popular classics by Georgette Heyer, to 'bodice rippers,' to historical fiction by John ...
