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| | Historical novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | As such, the historical novel is distinguished from the alternate-history genre. | | | Historical fiction may center on historical or on fictional characters, but usually represents an honest attempt based on considerable research (or at least serious reading) to tell a story set in the historical past as understood by the author's contemporaries. | | | Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge is set amid the Gordon Riots, and A Tale of Two Cities in the French Revolution. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_novel
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| | The Betrothed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | I Promessi Sposi (in English, The Betrothed) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni. | | | Widely underappreciated outside of Italy, where the novel is considered a real masterpiece of the Italian literature, it is one of the great European novels of the 19th century. | | | It is the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrothed
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| | 81.ch.10: Using Historical Fiction in the History Classroom |
| | If a particular historical event is described in a novel and they perceive that event as a problem that still exists in the present as well as the future, they might begin to comprehend the significance of the study of history. | | | The student’s personal response to a well written historical novel can be the beginning of an understanding of what history is about and why it is accessible in school libraries, public libraries, and in soft cover editions in book stores. | | | Like the historian, the good historical novelist searches for the truth in history, and infuses this truth into his fictional work. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/cthistory/81.ch.10.x.html
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| | Is it possible to write a good historical novel? By J.D. Connor |
| | Alessandro Manzoni's blockbuster debut novel, The Betrothed (1827), was the first Italian historical novel in the vein of Sir Walter Scott. | | | I believe the great monstrosity in historical literature is the seductivity of voice, its capacity for authentic-sounding inauthenticity, such as utterances like "I say a word and I can't remember it. | | | Instead, between 1827 and 1850, he worked intermittently on a theory of the genre, titled On the Historical Novel. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2126202/nav/tap2
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| | READING AND WRITING HISTORICAL |
| | Had Vidal stuck with his subtitle, "A Novel," it is doubtful that he would have raised such a ruckus with the historians but his statement here encourages historians to judge him by the narrower rhetorical standards of their own field. | | | Throughout the novel the fourteenth and twentieth centuries are not so distant mirrors of one another. | | | This is a marked difference from the conventions of contemporary historical fiction. |
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http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/histfict.html
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| | ALAN Review - Fall 1998 Volume 26, Number 1 |
| | Lasky points to the myriad interpretations of what she calls "plain history" by historians, arguing that they rarely do it "plain" and that no history, whether within a novel or history text, can be without bias (1997). | | | Novelist Erik Christian Haugaard observes that the "truth" of historical fiction often lies in its relevance to the beliefs that a contemporary reader brings to the text: | | | Kathryn Lasky was tripped up when she allowed a character in Beyond the Burning Time, her seventeenth-century novel about the Salem witchcraft trials, to carry a kerosene lantern. |
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http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall98/brown.html
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| | Talk History Forum - Historical Novel |
| | Historical fiction is my favorite genre:) The older the better, and ideally nothing after the renaissance. | | | It is fantasy, one book based during the Roman Empire, the others after its fall. | | | It is an old book written in Swedish but also translated to English...... |
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http://www.talk-history.com/forum/printthread.php?t=1700
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| | The Manila Times Internet Edition WEEKEND > The historical novel |
| | It seems that with Jose the historical framework has served the novelist in good stead; that the dwelling on racial memory and focusing on the travails of the peasantry and working class has invested the novels with an epic aura. | | | This was followed by The Three Cornered Sun set during the 1896 Revolution, published at the same time Mass was issued in 1979. | | | tc "It seems that with Jose the historical framework has served the novelist in good stead; that the dwelling on racial memory and focusing on the travails of the peasantry and working class has invested the novels with an epic aura. |
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http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2004/oct/24/yehey/weekend/20041024wek7.html
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| | Seminar #1 Summary - ENGL 339, Spring 2003 |
| | In the first the setting is historical but there are no historical events or persons in the story. | | | Historical fiction makes a point of conveying a serious respect for historical accuracy and detail, and its intention, beyond providing reading pleasure, is to enhance the reader's knowledge of past events, lives, and customs" emphasis added.] | | | Especially the historical romances because I am not really interested in that genre. |
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http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng339/seminar1.htm
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| | Historical Novel Review: Scraping through Stone. |
| | Whilst the writer of the Shields strived to adhere ‘soothly’ to the canon of historical romance, where all ends happily, Fox’s novel falls in the category of literature that uses history as its platform for expression. | | | The two novels even have their two female characters falling in love with a Scottish knight, escaping from his dysfunctional family. | | | Though, at this point, the character in Fox’s book decides then to return to her female gender. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/tudor/90708
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| | Gudrun's Tapestry is written like the historical novels I used to read decades ago before the genre got intermingled with the romance genre. | | | Her use of language and historical detail, as well as her compelling and outspoken character, made this book a pleasure to read. | | | The characters and dialogue are true to the period, and the author's background in poetry shows itself in her lyrical descriptions of the settings. |
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http://www.heartlandreviews.com/Historical_Archive.html
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| | AmericanHeritage.com / MY FAVORITE HISTORICAL NOVEL |
| | Middlemarch is one of my favorite novels of all time, and I don’t know of a better work from which to learn what life in England was like on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832; besides which, it is a very great novel in its own right. | | | I’m not much at naming favorite novels, historical or otherwise—I don’t seem to think of them that way—but I would say that Ragtime was one of the first books I ever read (I got kind of a late start on this reading and writing stuff), and I thought—and still think—it was pretty good. | | | Two historical novels that come to my mind immediately and spontaneously are John Dos Passos’s trilogy U.S.A., because it is so passionate, particular, and original, and Jack Finney’s Time and Again, because its main theme is the visitable past itself. |
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http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1992/6/1992_6_84.shtml
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| | Historical novel - Sea Dust |
| | Most important of all is its historical realism, and this is adhered to with a faithful awareness and detail throughout the book, making it an education for all landlubbers as well as a great story. | | | From the start of the novel, I was taken by the vivid use of descriptive language. | | | "The author has a good feel for the historical genre. |
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http://www.squidoo.com/seadust
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| | Historical Fiction vs. History |
| | I read a manuscript recently in which a seduction scene was brought to a frustrating halt as the author carefully enumerated the articles of clothing the hero was removing from his mistress, the fabrics they were made of and how they were worn. | | | While nurturing the love between the hero and heroine is an important theme in my books, they sometimes spend long passages of time apart or do things contrary to the normal roles of men and women in formula romance. | | | History and historical fiction are necessarily not the same thing. |
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http://www.cindyvallar.com/histfic.html
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| | Amazon.com: Caballero: A Historical Novel: Books: Jovita Gonzalez Mireles,Eve Raleigh,Jose Eduardo Limon,Maria ... |
| | The book caught my attention because (1)I like historical novels,(2) my last name is Mireles but no relation to author and (3)the fact that it's written by a woman. | | | The English translation of caballero is gentleman, and this work is more about the strong women during this important historical period of two neighboring countries. | | | When the patriarch's guerrillero son Alvaro is sentenced to execution by the Americans, his sister Susanita gets her Anglo lover to save him, thereby compromising his honor and embarrassing her own family?"deconstructing traditional male-centered images of resistance," according to the novel's critical epilog. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0890967016?v=glance
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| | India Treasures, an epic historical novel of Rajasthan and India |
| | An absolute jewel of a historical novel of epic proportions. | | | India Treasures, an epic historical novel of Rajasthan and India | | | We'd love to hear what you think of the books, or any other comments or questions. |
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http://www.timebridgespublishers.com
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| | The Scottish Historical Novel |
| | The Blue Heaven Bends Over All: A Novel based on the life of Sir Walter Scott. |
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http://www.grian.demon.co.uk/sn.hist.html
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| | Historical Novel Society |
| | I love to read historical novels, especially the ones about the Roman and Anglo-Saxon eras. | | | ‘Her Rightful Inheritance by Benita Brown’ In Historical Novels Review 25, 27 | | | ‘The Stone of the Light: Nefer the Silent by Christian Jacq’ In Historical Novels Review 12, 18 |
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http://www.tegula.freeserve.co.uk/hns.htm
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| | Researching a Historical Novel |
| | Her books are published in 14 languages and have become bestsellers here and abroad. | | | From ancient Rome to the 1950s South, historical periods have lured writers with the promise of events, settings, and above all, characters not available now. | | | Two of Sarah Smith's historical novels, The Vanished Child and The Knowledge of Water, have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year; the third, A Citizen of the Country, was named an Entertainment Weekly Editor's Choice. |
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http://world.std.com/~swrs/library/histres2.htm
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| | Welcome to the Official Historical Novel Society Website |
| | 'The Historical Novels Review is where I find out what’s happening in the historical fiction market.' – Carole Blake, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. | | | We also publish original fiction by new and established authors (Michel Faber, Elizabeth Chadwick). | | | Members: to have your books featured here, please contact us. |
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http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org
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| | historical novel |
| | Nancy Sales Cash's new novel, "Ritual River," makes a case for both as she combines fantasy romance with a reach back into the Trail of Tears. | | | Do you believe in undying love and generational curses? | | | Historical novel by Saddam to be first published in Japan (People's Daily) |
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http://www.readfasternow.com/ABC/1/historical-novel.htm
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| | Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel, Part One |
| | Roberts' rendition of the prose is lively and readable, but his translation of the poetry is a delight, capturing the flavour and pace, and sometimes even the rhyme, of the original."--National Post (Canadian daily) | | | "By the measure of sheer density of history and drama, all other historical novels suffer by comparison to Three Kingdoms, the great epic of the Chinese literary tradition. | | | Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. |
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http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9328.html
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| | Researching the Historical Novel |
| | There are more than one million copies of her novels in print. | | | She's buying your novel because she wants to read a compelling story about fascinating people. | | | Permission is granted for individual writers to print one copy of this article for personal use. |
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http://www.shellythacker.com/researching.htm
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| | 12 Ways to Research a Historical Novel |
| | Read about the general history of the locale where your story is set, so you have some context for your story. | | | Ann Roscopf Allen is a college writing instructor and the author of the historical novel A Serpent Cherished, based on the true story of an 1891 Memphis murder. | | | "Whether you are fictionalizing historical events or making up your own story, attention to detail can determine whether your novel is credible to history buffs or if they’ll give it a pass. |
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http://www.bigarticles.com/12-Ways-to-Research-a-Historical-Novel-49983.html
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| | Rocky Mountain Man Indian Fur Trade Mountains of Stone Historical Novel Bibliography |
| | This list contains both fiction and non-fiction books, but with the exception of Thomas James, these references represent the best and most factual books on early Indian cultures and the fur trade. | | | Rocky Mountain Man Indian Fur Trade Mountains of Stone Historical Novel Bibliography | | | Mountains of Stone Novel and Mountains of Stone Website Bibliography |
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http://www.mountainsofstone.com/bibliography.htm
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| | Historical Novel Society Conference 2005 - Salt Lake City, Utah |
| | Since its beginnings, the Historical Novel Society has provided a community for people who love novels set in time periods outside their own. | | | Historical Novel Society Conference 2005 - Salt Lake City, Utah | | | As a writer, it will create opportunities for you to read and discuss your work with others, including professionals in the field. |
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http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/USA/conference.htm
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| | When the Civil War came to New York csmonitor.com |
| | His efforts to wend his way home through this furnace of hate – while trying to hide more than 200 black children from his employer's orphanage – provide some of the novel's most harrowing and heroic scenes. | | | His first novel, "Dreamland," burst into flames three years ago – a hypnotic portrayal of Coney Island designed to parallel the chaotic city of New York in 1911. | | | His wife, meanwhile, remains holed up in her house, trying to protect their own children not only from the mob but from her ex-lover, Dangerous Johnny Dolan, an engine of unstoppable vengeance who's returned to New York after 14 years. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1017/p15s02-bogn.html
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| | historical novel |
| | a narrative in novel form, characterized chiefly by an imaginative reconstruction of historical events and personages. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipd/A0476904.html
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| | A or An Historical Novel? |
| | I'd say a history professor because I say an /h/ in history, and an historical novel because I drop the /h/ most of the time in historical. | | | >> Does one use "a" or "an" before the word "historical?" >> Example: a/an historical event >It was my impression that the rule for "BBC English" is that if the >initial syllable of the "h" word is unstressed (historical) one uses >"an", whereas if it is stressed (history), one uses "a". | | | In fact, that's how I say it most of the time. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/a-an.html
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| | RavensYard: Historical Novel |
| | October 30, 2005 at 12:03 PM in Historical Novel, The House: 1916 | | | Norton: Bluewater Bride -- The Voyage of the Halcyon | | | Yellow Fever is a historical novel set at the turn of the 20th Century as the United States emerges as an imperial power, partly as a result of the newspaper war being waged by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. |
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http://www.ravensyard.com/home/historical_novel
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| | Historical Jesus |
| | If the novel intrigues you, then you might enjoy several other books that have inspired the author. | | | Note to retailers: the book is distributed by Bookpeople. | | | These can be purchased through the links here: |
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http://www.richardmuller.com
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| | Tony Junker: Tunnell's Boys, historical novel, nautical fiction |
| | Issues of war and peace are central, but are treated in a different light, challenging the reader to think hard about violence and its justifications, and giving the novel a decidedly modern, timely twist. Looking for something different in historical, nautical fiction? Check out | | | Tony Junker: Tunnell's Boys, historical novel, nautical fiction |
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http://www.tonyjunker.com
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| | Cane River: An Historical Novel by Lalita Tademy |
| | Cane River: An Historical Novel by Lalita Tademy | | | If the image above is animated, you can view the Flash page. | | | To get Macromedia Flash, click on the button below and then return to the site. |
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http://www.lalitatademy.com
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