Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction
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Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction

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eBook - ePub

Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction

About this book

This volume focuses on historical fiction written by and for women, approximately, in the last 30 years and across the entire globe. It comprises three parts. Part 1 draws on the theme of the inner life and experiences of the female historical figure, Part 2 is concerned with genre-bending that fuels the construction of the vast majority of story worlds within the genre, and Part 3 with the idea of unusual angles that the historical fiction storytelling employs

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Yes, you can access Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction by Alicja Bemben,Michael Joseph in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism for Women Authors. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. The Golden Age of Historical Fiction: Women’s Fictionalisations of the Past from a Global Perspective
  9. PART 1 21st-Century Heroines
  10. PART 2 Genre Experiments and Social Change
  11. PART 3 (En)Gendering and Sexualising the Past
  12. Index