Susan C. Brantly

The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era

Presenting the Past

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past, demonstrating how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. It traces how concerns of the postmodern era such as critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781138230255
• ISBN-10: 1138230251
• Artikelnr.: 47770199

Autorenporträt

Susan Brantly is Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Historical Metaphors on the Postmodern Palette
Chapter Two: Nation Building and the Need for Authenticity: Per Anders
Fogelström's Stockholm Series
Chapter Three: Playing with Historical Conventions: P.C. Jersild's Return
of the Geniuses
Chapter Four: Imagining a Place in the Past: Gender and the Historical
Novel
Chapter Five: History, National Identity, and Race: Ola Larsmo's The Maroon
Mountain
Chapter Six: The Enlightenment and Postcolonialism: Tournier's Friday,
Delblanc's Speranza, and Unsworth's Sacred Hunger
Chapter Seven: Defending the Enlightenment: P.O. Enquist's Magnetist's
Fifth Winter and The Royal Physician's Visit
Chapter Eight: Digging up the Past: The Case of Charles XII
Bibliography
Index