Before revision: Examples Works often described as examples of historiographical metafiction include: William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c.1608), John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime (1975), William Kennedy's Legs (1975), Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), A. S. Byatt's Possession (1990), Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992), Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (1997) and many others.
After revision: J.M Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg,Examples Works often described as examples of historiographical metafiction include: William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c.1608), John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime (1975), William Kennedy's Legs (1975), Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), A. S. Byatt's Possession (1990), Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992), Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (1997) and many others.