Cooper, Katherine
The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction
1. Introduction: Histories and heroines: the female figure in contemporary historical fiction
Katherine Cooper, Emma Short
Part I. Historical Women: Revisioning Real Lives
2. The virtuosa and the ventriloquists: Janice Galloway’s
Theresa Jamieson
3. Making up, or making over: Reconstructing the modern female author
Emma Short
4. A deviant device: Diary dissembling in Margaret Atwood’s
Kym Brindle
5. Whoso list to hunt’: The literary fortunes of Anne Boleyn
Julie Crane
Part II. Imagined Histories: Romancing Fictional Heroines
6. Do knights still rescue damsels in distress?: Reimagining the medieval in Mills & Boon historical romance
Amy Burge
7. Sexual f(r)ictions: Pornography in neo-Victorian women’s fiction
Nadine Muller
8. Re-claiming Anne Damer/re-covering Sapphic history: Emma Donoghue’s
Claire O’Callaghan
9. Things slipping between past and present: Feminism and the gothic in Kate Mosse’s
Katherine Cooper
Part III. Imagined Histories: Romancing Fictional Heroines
10. Imagine. Investigate. Intervene?: A consideration of feminist intent and metafictive invention in the historical fictions of A. S. Byatt and Marina Warner
Siân Harris
11. In defence of fiction: History and imagination in Kate Grenville’s
Anna Gething
12. Difficulties, discontinuities and differences: Reading women’s historical fiction
Diana Wallace
13. Writing historical fiction: Thoughts from two practitioners
Alice Thompson, Susan Sellers
Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature, general, British and Irish Literature
- Toimittaja
- Cooper, Katherine
- Short, Emma
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2012
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 254 sivua
- Kategoria
- Yhteiskunta
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137283382
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-349-33782-8