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Fans of historical fiction will enjoy this tightly plotted tale from author Helen H. Gardener. An Unofficial Patriot follows the ups and downs of a Southern-born clergyman, Griffith Davenport, as he makes his way in the evolving and sometimes treacherous new order of the United States in the post-Civil War era.

Adventure stories. --- Historical fiction. --- Historical novels --- History --- Fiction --- Adventure and adventurers --- Adventure fiction --- Adventure novels

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The historical novel has had a very interesting history itself. During the 19th century the historical novels of Scott, Hugo, Thackeray, Dickens, Tolstoy and a host of other writers enjoyed both popular success and critical admiration. Success has never really died out, but admiration has been another matter. During the 20th century, historical fiction began to be disparaged by critics who looked down on the genre and its elements of romance, adventure and swashbuckling. This disparagement re...

Historical fiction --- Essays. --- Collected papers (Anthologies) --- Papers, Collected (Anthologies) --- Prose literature --- Festschriften --- Historical novels --- History --- Fiction --- History and criticism

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In the 1950's prolific U.S. fiction writer Stephen Marlowe became a cult author for lovers of noir fiction mainly for his Drumbeat series, which present his best-known character: private eye Chester Drum. Yet, the academia never paid much attention to his multifaceted, extensive oeuvre . Chaos and Madness is the first volume offering a critical approach to Marlowe’s riveting historical novels. Their relevance in the field of literary studies derives from their well-wrought structure and captivating prose as well as from their portrayal of remote European history – a distinctive feature that makes Marlowe a unique figure in the North American trend of historiographic metafiction. Chaos and Madness provides a comprehensive narratological and ideological analysis of three novels in which Marlowe deals with Spanish history. Preceded by an in-depth if reader-friendly theoretical chapter that traces the evolution of the historical novel as a genre, Calvo-Pascual’s meticulous investigation into Marlowe’s fiction proves compelling for anyone interested in contemporary American fiction, in Spanish history, or in the interaction of metafiction and the scientific discourse of chaos theory.

Politics in literature. --- Historical fiction. --- Historical novels --- History --- Fiction --- Political science in literature --- Marlowe, Stephen, --- Lesser, Milton, --- Thames, C. H., --- Ridgway, Jason, --- Frazer, Andrew, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In the last decades, there has been an intense debate on the relationship between literature and historiography, often linked to the debate between "empiricists" and "postmodernists". The aim of this collective work is to address this debate, and to search for new ways of thinking and encountering the past. The key note for the book comes from Hayden White, one of the leading academic figures, whose role in launching the contemporary history/literature debate has been crucial. It is followed by three critical readings of his work, all suggesting new ways to apply or challenge his views. In other chapters of the book, history / literature question is then addressed from three points of view: narrativity, history as literature, and literature as history. Tropes for the Past is an ideal introduction to the literature/historiography debate and Hayden White's role in it. It will be of use for all students and scholars in the philosophy of history and in historically oriented literary, cultural, and social studies.

History as a science --- Literature --- White, Hayden --- 82:93 --- 82.091 --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- 82:93 Literatuur en geschiedenis --- Literatuur en geschiedenis --- Historical fiction --- History, Modern --- Literature and history --- Other (Philosophy) --- Alterity (Philosophy) --- Otherness (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Historical novels --- History --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- Historiography --- Comparative studies --- White, Hayden V.,

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Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dmitry have haunted the Russian imagination for four hundred years. Was Dmitry legitimate, the last scion of the House of Rurik, or was he an upstart pretender? A harbinger of Russia's doom or a herald of progress? Writing the Time of Troubles traces the proliferation of fictional representations of Dmitry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, showing how playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his brief and equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.

Kings and rulers in literature. --- Russian literature --- History and criticism. --- Boris Fyodorovich Godunov, --- Lzhedmitri --- Boris Fedorovich, --- Boris Fedorovich Godunov, --- Boris Godounov, --- Boris Godunof, --- Boris Godunov, --- Boris Godunow, --- Borys Godunow, --- Godounov, Boris, --- Godunof, Boris, --- Godunov, Boris Fedorovich, --- Godunow, Boris, --- Godunow, Borys, --- Борис Федорович Годунов, --- In literature. --- History and criticism --- Lzhedmitriĭ --- False Dmitry. --- Historical formalism. --- Historical poetics. --- Literature and law. --- Russian historical drama. --- Russian historical novels. --- Time of Troubles. --- Trauma narratives.