The woman's historical novel : British women writers, 1900-2000 /

The woman's historical novel : British women writers, 1900-2000 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wallace, Diana, 1964-
Imprint:	Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Description:	xiii, 269 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism. English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. English fiction. English fiction -- Women authors. Historical fiction, English. Literature and history. Women and literature. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5585595

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ISBN:	1403903220 (cloth)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-255) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Entering into History: The Woman Citizen and the Historical Novel, 1900-1929
Histories of the Defeated: Writers Taking Side in the 1930s
Writing the War and After: Wicked Ladies and Wayward Women in the 1940s
Hollow Men and Homosexual Heroes: Exploring Masculinity in the 1950s
The Return of the Repressed: Maternal Histories in the 1960s
Selling Women's History: Popular Historical Fiction in the 1970s
'Herstory' to Postmodern Histories: History as Dissent in the 1980s
Dialogues with the Dead: History and the Sense of an Ending, 1990-2000
Postscript
Bibliography
Index