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9780230302785
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From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith, this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. 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
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Histories and heroines: the female figure in contemporary historical fiction; Part I: Historical Women: Revisioning Real Lives; 1 The virtuosa and the ventriloquists: Janice Galloway's Clara; 2 Making up, or making over: Reconstructing the modern female author; 3 A deviant device: Diary dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; 4 'Whoso list to hunt': The literary fortunes of Anne Boleyn; Part II: Imagined Histories: Romancing Fictional Heroines
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5 Do knights still rescue damsels in distress?: Reimagining the medieval in Mills & Boon historical romance6 Sexual f(r)ictions: Pornography in neo-Victorian women's fiction; 7 Re-claiming Anne Damer/re-covering Sapphic history: Emma Donoghue's Life Mask; 8 Things slipping between past and present: Feminism and the gothic in Kate Mosse's Sepulchre; Part III: Rewriting History: Reasserting the Female; 9 Imagine. Investigate. Intervene?: A consideration of feminist intent and metafictive invention in the historical fictions of A. S. Byatt and Marina Warner
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10 In defence of fiction: History and imagination in Kate Grenville's The Secret River and The Lieutenant11 Difficulties, discontinuities and differences: Reading women's historical fiction; 12 Writing historical fiction: Thoughts from two practitioners; Select Bibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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ISBN 9781137283382
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ISBN 9780230302785
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The female figure in contemporary historical fiction Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ISBN 9780230302785
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ISBN 0230302785
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Englisch
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Frau
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Geschichte
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Literatur
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Electronic books
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