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About this book
The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat Barker.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Entering into History: The Woman Citizen and the Historical Novel, 1900-1929
- 3 Histories of the Defeated: Writers Taking Sides in the 1930s
- 4 Writing the War and After: Wicked Ladies and Wayward Women in the 1940s
- 5 Hollow Men and Homosexual Heroes: Exploring Masculinity in the 1950s
- 6 The Return of the Repressed: Maternal Histories in the 1960s
- 7 Selling Women's History: Popular Historical Fiction in the 1970s
- 8 'Herstory' to Postmodern Histories: History as Dissent in the 1980s
- 9 Dialogues with the Dead: History and the 'Sense of an Ending', 1990-2000
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index