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Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction: Girls' Own Stories

Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction: Girls' Own Stories

King, Jeannette

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 3030941256
ISBN13: 9783030941253
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 11 2022
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels introduce the neglected women of history, real and imagined, who accompanied their menfolk to the New World, and enabled its settlement or colonisation. Familiar novelists include Isabel Allende, Audrey Thomas and Jane Smiley, but this book also introduces less familiar writers who have produced richly textured and densely historical novels. In addition to putting women back into history, these writers engage with the literature of the past, including the American canon of male fiction which dominated literary history before the intervention of feminist scholars. The book begins with an introduction to the history of historical fiction and provides a theoretical, historical and geographical context for the novels themselves.

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