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ABSTRACT: This essay argues that William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1847-48) and Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major (1880) use the temporal multiplicity and ambiguity of fashion to depict historical time as [...]

Nella concezione del rapporto fra storiografia e letteratura ha prevalso, nel corso del tempo, l'immagine di una reciproca vicinanza che naturalmente non ha voluto dire, sempre e necessariamente, buon vicinato. [...]

THERE IS a MOMENT at the very end of Charles Portis's novel True Grit when the narrator, thirty-nine-year-old Mattie Ross, looks back on the events of twenty-five years earlier and [...]

Abstract This article examines the array of macro and micro historical factors that stirred historical agency in the 1970s war against colonial settlerism as depicted in selected liberation war fiction. [...]

Abstract Beginning in the 1960s, British children's literature began to include sympathetic representations of people from outside the dominant culture. Greater numbers of Jewish characters appeared as part of this [...]

By contextualizing the film Ever After in terms of its revisions of the classic versions of the Cinderella story and of Renaissance ideas of social reform, this study presents the [...]

RM: What's The Waterworks about? ELD: I just finished reading the page proofs, so it's a little hard for me to tell at this point.(*) The book has to settle [...]

Familiarizing students with the Elizabethan era by assigning them works of historical fiction can better prepare to deal with what can be the very alien world of Shakespeare. Historical fiction texts should be chosen to reflect the politics, language, culture, history, and religion of the era. Once these themes are established in the students' minds, Shakespeare will be much easier for them to appreciate.

Price, a student in Tom Crick's course on the French Revolution in Graham Swift's novel Waterland, disrupts the class and sets off Crick's rambling but fascinating discourse on the history [...]

The Tale of 'Savva Grudcyn' is a proto-novel which reflects the transition of a Russian epic to a Russian novel. The tale teaches morals by proclaiming the spiritual message of redemption and salvation which characterize an epic. The story, situated in 17th century Muscovy, traces historical developments through the adventures of Foma Grudcyn. The tale was appreciated through the 18th and 19th centuries because of its didactic message.

A work of fiction may shed light on historical memory, historical consciousness and historical experience and may also show more about the past and the relationship between past and present than works of history ever shown. A short story about a historian, who is asked to review a historical novel for a book review he has long dreamed of contributing to, is presented.

The interaction between historians, novelists and literature scholars represents history/fiction borderland. The difference between provable knowledge and deeper forms of understanding is the most important issue for historians.

Historical fiction should be based on careful research and rigorous analysis of evidence for serving as a valuable adjunct to the work of historians in their discipline. The historical hypotheses should be treated without any quibble or qualification and should also credibly represent the material world in which the theory works.

Homosexuality presents special problems for historians. Historians feel they must rely on evidence to prove or disprove claims about the past, the harder the better. Notions of evidence, especially for [...]

Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser explains how `history disguised as fiction' has been his inspiration and is also his aim. `YOUR EYES ARE blinded by the sight of gold, man!' [...]

Paul Dukes welcomes the current boom in historical fiction -- but says novelists need to ground their stories in a soil of solid fact. AT THE END OF HIS NOVEL [...]

Lejeune's 'White's: The First Three Hundred Years' charts the history of the seventeenth-century club in London that aristocrats and gamblers frequented. White's started out as a coffee-house in the 1690's went through periods of highs and lows, and has been immensely popular since the 1920s. Lejeune has compiled White's history with the help of correspondence, and gives weight to the eccentricities of the club's patrons. Lejeune also stresses that the club, like all other contemporary clubs, was reluctant to give up old customs and ideas.

Sam Newton's book, 'The Origins of Beowulf,' delves into the controversy of whether Beowulf is English or Danish. Scholars ask why an English poem would praise the Danes. The poem describes the events of the 6th century though it was written in the 11th century, by which time the English and the Danes were probably friendly. The events which give the poem a historical character are also analyzed though such details are out of context at present.

Christopher Burn's novel, 'In the Houses of the West,' is set in the Valley of Kings, Egypt. The story centers around three characters, Raymond Murchison, an official in the Antiquities Department, Lucinda Plummer and her brother Clive Oxtaby, an archaeologist. The story skillfully depicts the emotional struggles of the characters to capture the reader's interest till the end.