Reading Historical Fiction

The Revenant and Remembered Past

• Author(s): Kate Mitchell,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 243
• ISBN_10: 1137291540
  ISBN_13: 9781137291547
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:... This collection examines the intersection of historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading practices in historical fiction from the eighteenth century to today. In shifting focus to the agency of the reader and taking a long historical view, the collection brings a new perspective to the field of historical representation.