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245 04 a| The female figure in contemporary historical fictionh| [electronic resource] /c| edited by Katherine Cooper and Emma Short.;

260 a| Basingstoke ;a| New York :b| Palgrave Macmillan,;

300 a| xiii, 241 p. :b| ill. ;c| 23 cm.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (page 237) and index.;

505 00 t| Introduction: Histories and heroines: the female figure in contemporary historical fiction /r| Katherine Cooper and Emma Short --g| Historical women: revisioning real lives --t| The virtuosa and the ventriloquists: Janice Galloway's Clara /r| Theresa Jamieson --t| Making up, or making over: reconstructing the modern female author /r| Emma Short --t| A deviant device: diary dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace /r| Kym Brindle --t| 'Whoso list to hunt': the literary fortunes of Anne Boleyn /r| Julia Crane --g| Imagines histories: romancing fictional heroines --t| Do knights still rescue damsels in distress?: reimagining the medieval in Mills & Boon historical romance /r| Amy Burge --t| Sexual f(r)ictions: pornography in neo-Victorian women's fiction /r| Nadine Muller --t| Re-claiming Anne Damer/re-covering Sapphic history: Emma Donoghue's Life Mask /r| Claire O'Callaghan --t| Things slipping between past and present: feminism and the gothic in Kate Mosse's Sepulchre /r| Katherine Cooper --g| Rewriting history: reasserting the female --t| Imagine, investigate, intervene?: a consideration of feminist intent and metafictive invention in the historical fictions of A.S. Byatt and Marina Warner /r| Siân Harris --t| In defence of fiction: history and imagination in Kate Grenville's The Secret River and The Lieutenant /r| Anna Gething --t| Difficulties, discontinuities, and differences: reading women's historical fiction /r| Diana Wallace --t| Writing historical fiction: thoughts from two practitioners /r| Alice Thompson and Susan Sellers.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 8 a| 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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The female figure in contemporary historical fiction / edited by Katherine Cooper and Emma Short.

Other author	Cooper, Katherine (Researcher in English literature)
Other author	Short, Emma (Researcher in English literature)
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Description	xiii, 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Historical fiction, English--History and criticism. English fiction--21st century. --History and criticism. Women in literature.

Contents	Introduction: Histories and heroines: the female figure in contemporary historical fiction / Katherine Cooper and Emma Short -- Historical women: revisioning real lives -- The virtuosa and the ventriloquists: Janice Galloway's Clara / Theresa Jamieson -- Making up, or making over: reconstructing the modern female author / Emma Short -- A deviant device: diary dissembling in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace / Kym Brindle -- 'Whoso list to hunt': the literary fortunes of Anne Boleyn / Julia Crane -- Imagines histories: romancing fictional heroines -- Do knights still rescue damsels in distress?: reimagining the medieval in Mills & Boon historical romance / Amy Burge -- Sexual f(r)ictions: pornography in neo-Victorian women's fiction / Nadine Muller -- Re-claiming Anne Damer/re-covering Sapphic history: Emma Donoghue's Life Mask / Claire O'Callaghan -- Things slipping between past and present: feminism and the gothic in Kate Mosse's Sepulchre / Katherine Cooper -- Rewriting history: reasserting the female -- Imagine, investigate, intervene?: a consideration of feminist intent and metafictive invention in the historical fictions of A.S. Byatt and Marina Warner / Siân Harris -- In defence of fiction: history and imagination in Kate Grenville's The Secret River and The Lieutenant / Anna Gething -- Difficulties, discontinuities, and differences: reading women's historical fiction / Diana Wallace -- Writing historical fiction: thoughts from two practitioners / Alice Thompson and Susan Sellers.
Summary	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (page 237) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012533291
ISBN	9780230302785
ISBN	0230302785

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