The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction [electronic resource] /
Cooper, K.editor.
Short, E.editor.
From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Historical women : revisioning real lives -- pt. II. Imagined histories : romancing fictional heroines -- pt. III. Rewriting history : reasserting the female.
From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature.
British literature.
Gender Studies.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literature, general.
British and Irish Literature.