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The woman's historical novel :

0230223605

1403903220

9780230223608

9781403903228

b797971

The woman's historical novel :

[Book]

British women writers, 1900-2000 /

Diana Wallace.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2005.

xiii, 269 pages ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index.

Introduction. The historical novel: history and criticism. a maternal genealogy: Sophia Lee's The Recess (1783). The masqueraders; cross-writing, gender, costume -- Entering into History: the owman citizen and the historical novel, 1900-1929. Gender as masquerade: Georgett Heyer's mask of romance. Remembering the conquered: Naomi Michisons' anti-imperialist fictions -- Histories of the defeated: writers taking sides in the 1930s. Rooted in geography: Phyllis Bentley's regional historical fiction . The writer as sniper: Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Writing the war and after: wicked ladies and wayward women in the 1940s. "Trespasser in time": Daphne du Maurier's historical sense. The new Elizabethans: Margaret Irwin's family romances --Hollow men and homosexual heroes: exploring masculinity in the 1950s. Ancient history: Mary Renault's dialogic histories. a lsot leader: H.F.M. Prescott's The Man on a donkey (1952 -- The return of the repressed: maternal histories in the 1960s. Captive women:"Jean Plaidy' and 'Victoria Holt'. Chess games: dorothy Dunnett's Oymond Chronicles -- Selling women's history: Popular historical fiction in the 1970s. The 'self-experience' past: Catherine Cooksons' social histories. 'Merlin was me': Mary Stewart's Arthurian triology -- 'Herstory' to Postmodern histories: history as dissent in the 190s. Popular fictions: Philippa Gregory's Marxist-Feminist novels. Postmodern histories: Rose Tremain and Jeanette Winterson -- Dialogues with the Dead: history and the 'Sense of an ending', 1990-2000. Ventriloquising the past: A.S. Byatt's romance with history. Hystorical men: Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy.

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"In this, the first major study of British women writers' appropriation and re-visioning of this central literary genre, Diana Wallace explores the development of a female version of the historical novel, revealing it to be one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century. This study combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Georgette Heyer, Naomi Mitchison, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Daphne du Maurier, Margaret Irwin, Mary Renault, 'Jean Plaidy', Dorothy Dunnett, Catherine Cookson, Mary Stewart, Philippa Gregory, A.S. Byatt and Pat Barker."--Jacket.

English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.

Historical fiction, English-- History and criticism.

Literature and history-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.

Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.

Écrits de femmes anglais-- Histoire et critique.

Femmes et littérature-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Littérature et histoire-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Roman anglais-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

Roman historique anglais-- Histoire et critique.

Englisch.

English fiction-- Women authors.

English fiction.

Frauenroman.

Frauenroman.

Historical fiction, English.

Historischer Roman.

Historischer Roman.

Literature and history.

Schriftstellerin.

Schriftstellerin.

Women and literature.

Englisch.

Great Britain.

Großbritannien.

Großbritannien.

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