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Epilogue: Ivanhoe and Historical Fiction
In this epilogue, I want to expand upon my remarks at the end of Chapter 4, examining Ivanhoe in relation to the historical fiction that preceded it. With Ivanhoe, Scott took a position in opposition to the histo...
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Four Women, For Women
In her essay “Selling Hot Pussy,” bell hooks writes, “Bombarded with images representing black female bodies as expendable, black women have either passively absorbed this thinking or vehemently resisted it” (6.....
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Epilogue
Plagiarism is a research topic likely to incite the prospector’s worst anxiety, that of suspecting you are toiling away in barren ground while the tracts of land on either side promise much richer pickings. Pl...
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Conclusion: ‘What will count as history?’
This book has traced the re-creation of the Victorian era in recent historical fictions, focusing on novels by Graham Swift, A. S. Byatt, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys and Gail Jones. It has argued that that t...
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Conclusion
In the past, novelists regularly exploited formats and techniques borrowed from other genres—whether from collected correspondence, memoirs, diaries, or other generic traditions. Eventually, in every instance, .....
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Conclusion: The Bill of Fare-Thee-Well
As though the worn-out weary world that Braddon describes in The Doctor’s Wife were too exhausted, too vitiated—and too void of women—to continue the promulgation of national identity, by the twentieth century, B...
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Conclusion: Realism, Form and Balance
I have argued that the contemporary field of postcolonial studies may learn an important lesson from the trajectory of Lukács’s reflections on the novel — from The Theory of the Novel, where he develops an argume...