This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women's achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.
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Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction
Repairing the Past, Repurposing History
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Repairing the Past, Repurposing History
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History
- 1 The Australian Convict Prostitute Romance: Narrating Social and Sexual Justice for âDamned Whoresâ
- 2 Repurposing a Trashed World: Twenty-First Century Caribbean Authors of Romantic Historical Fiction and the Legacy of British Imperialism
- 3 Love in Victorian London: Immigrant Histories and Intersecting Diversities in K.J. Charlesâ Sins of the Cities
- 4 Language, Sexuality and âNecessary Anachronismâ in Lorraine Heathâs Neo-Victorian Popular Romance Series Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James
- 5 Suffragette Historical Romances: Re-Purposing Womenâs Suffrage in a Postfeminist Context
- 6 The US Civil War and Its Aftermath in Historical Quaker Romances: Hailing White Heroines as Builders and Healers of the Nation
- 7 Historical Reparation, Emotional Justice: The Navajo Long Walk in Evangeline Parsons Yazzieâs Her Land, Her Love
- 8 When a Jew Loves a Nazi: Problems with Repurposing the Holocaust for Reparative Romance
- Index
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