Modernism and Historical Fiction

Writing the Past

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Modernism and Historical Fiction: Writing the Past is the first comprehensive study of modernist historical fiction. Analysing a rich and diverse body of texts from the four nations of the British Isles and arguing for a new spatially-aware theoretical approach, it outlines a concept of modernist historical fiction which bridges the gap between Walter Scott’s novels and twentieth-century postmodern historiographic metafiction. Beginning with an exploration of how Virginia Woolf’s engagement with Scott’s novels informed her fiction, including Orlando and Flush, it then examines representations of five key historical periods (the classical world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries). It shows how modernist writers, including H.D., John Cowper Powys, Helen Waddell, Naomi Mitchison, Gwyn Thomas and Sylvia Townsend Warner developed sophisticated strategies to foreground and interrogate the act of writing the past.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-03-12
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783032242228

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Diana Wallace is Professor of English Literature at the University of South Wales, UK, where her teaching and research focus on women’s writing, historical fiction, Modernism and the Gothic. Her publications include Christopher Meredith (2018), Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic (2013), The Woman’s Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 (2005) and Sisters and Rivals in British Women’s Fiction, 1914-39 (2000). She has edited Hilda Vaughan’s Here are Lovers (1926) and Harvest Home (1936) for Honno’s Welsh Women’s Classics series.

Introduction: Modernist historical fiction: An impossible genre?.- Part I.- 1.‘Reading Scott’: Virginia Woolf and Sir Walter Scott.- Part II.- 2. Classical Worlds: Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.- 3. ‘Jazzing’ the Middle Ages: imagining the Medieval.- 4. The strangeness of the Renaissance: Tudors and Elizabethans.- 5. The elegant Eighteenth Century: reason and rebellion.- 6. The long Nineteenth Century: Victorians and others.- Coda: Wide Sargasso Sea as modernist historical fiction.