Historical fiction /
This book encourages readers to engage with plots based on historical events and characters, reimagine history in cases where it is reconstructed, become better acquainted with history as it is personalized through specific characters, and question historical fact.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
[2018]
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| Edition: | [First edition]. |
| Series: | Critical insights.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- About This Volume, Virginia Brackett ; On Historical Fiction, Virginia Brackett
- Critical Contexts. More Than Sixty Years Hence: Historicizing the Historical Novel, Danielle Barkley ; Historical Fiction and Its Critics: From Sir Walter Scott to Contemporary Young Adult Literature, Steven T. Bickmore ; Imagining the Other: Female Protagonists of Young Adult Historical Fiction Voicing Alternative Perspectives, Mary Warner ; Identity Formation in Young Adult Holocaust Historical Fiction: Comparative Analysis of Lois Lowry's Number the Stars and Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed, Jeffrey S. Kaplan
- Critical Readings. Historical Fiction: A Comparative Analysis of Medieval Romance and Scott's Ivanhoe, Christine E. Kozikowski ; Tales of Other Times: The Gothic Novel as Historical Fiction, Natalie Neill ; Made of Legend and History: The Robin Hood Tradition in Young Adult Literature, Amanda L. Anderson ; Through a Glass, Lightly: Translating History for Young Readers, Chris Crowe ; James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Scholastic: Reading Mary Pope Osborne's Standing in the Light as Reimagining the Power of Cross-Cultural Friendship in the American Historical Contact Narrative, LuElla D'Amico ; "We Must Have Some Sport": The Afflicted Girls of Salem in Fiction for Young Adults, Marta María Gutiérrez Rodríguez ; Historical Crossover in Chinese and Chinese-American Fiction: The Outlaws, Plus One Cross-dresser, Sheng-mei Ma ; Representation of the American Civil War in Contemporary Historical Fiction for Young Adults: Why We Read about the Civil War, Amy Cummins ; "Sixty Million and More": Family and Sacrifice in the African-American Historical Novel, Jericho Williams ; New Voices of History: The Depression Era and Historical Fiction in America, Sara Rutkowski ; Meeting the Mirabals in In the Time of the Butterflies: Real Figures in Historical Biographical Fiction, Christine De Vinne.
