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The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era - Presenting the Past (Paperback)
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The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era - Presenting the Past (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
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This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the
variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How
does an author's nationality or gender impact their artistic
choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a
transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can
communicate across national borders, often by invoking or
deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it
traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern
critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the
Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and
shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture.
Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are
postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic,
yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between
claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past.
Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are
compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing
a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting
of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that
historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they
differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional
phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a
transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and
nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.
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