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Heuer, Imke. "British Historical Fiction before Scott." Women's Writing 19, no. 3 (2012): 376–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2012.666421.

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Hannabuss, Stuart. "Historical dictionary of British spy fiction." Reference Reviews 30, no. 8 (2016): 19–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rr-06-2016-0152.

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Young-Phil Yoon. "Recent Studies on Contemporary British Fiction: The Historical Novel and Black British Fiction." New Korean Journal of English Lnaguage & Literature 54, no. 3 (2012): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.25151/nkje.2012.54.3.001.

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Rooney, Morgan. "British Historical Fiction before Scott. Anne H. Stevens." Wordsworth Circle 43, no. 4 (2012): 249–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/twc24065365.

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GODEANU-KENWORTHY, OANA. "Fictions of Race: American Indian Policies in Nineteenth-Century British North American Fiction." Journal of American Studies 52, no. 1 (2016): 91–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875816001948.

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This article explores the hemispheric and transatlantic uses of race and empire as tropes of settler-colonial otherness in the novelThe Canadian Brothers(1840) by Canadian author John Richardson. In this pre-Confederation historical novel, Richardson contrasts the imperial British discourse of racial tolerance, and the British military alliances with the Natives in the War of 1812, with the brutality of American Indian policies south of the border, in an effort to craft a narrative of Canadian difference from, and incompatibility with, American culture. At the same time, the author's critical

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Goodman, Sam. "Civil Service Rules: (Post)Colonial Memoir and the Raj Revival, 1970–1985." Literature & History 33, no. 1 (2024): 16–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03061973241247502.

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In the 1970s, the India Office Archive within the British Library began inviting the last generation of the Indian Civil Service and Indian Political Service to commit their experiences to written record. Running until the mid-1980s and eventually producing 135 manuscript memoirs, this archive offers a unique insight into the end of the British Empire, as seen a generation hence. This article argues that these memoirs, generated in a time of crisis and fracture within British national identity, are not only vital historical sources but are a significant body of creative work within the context

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GHEORGHIU, Oana Celia. "ENCODING REALITY INTO FICTION/ DECODING FICTION AS REALITY: POSTMODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY AS CRITICAL THEORY." International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education 5, no. 1 (2021): 99–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.26520/mcdsare.2021.5.99-105.

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This paper is intended as a brief critical review of three interrelated, fairly similar critical theories, born out the necessity of looking into cultural forms and products with a view to finding the politics at work therein. While American New Historicism is more historically oriented, British Cultural Materialism, with its more obvious influence from Marxism, Postcolonialism and other theories which place the margin at their centre, seems to be more in tune with contemporaneity, and so is the area of Cultural Studies, with its emphasis on cultural representations. It is advocated here that

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Priya, G., P. Sujatha, and R. Sumathi. "The Mystery in The Historical Novel of Zadie Smith “The Fraud”." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 12, S1-Apr (2025): 137–40. https://doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v12is1-apr.8962.

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Zadie smith, British writer of fiction, non-fiction and plays, who has been periodically elaborated with remarkable wit, originality, intelligence, humor, and sheer energy of her generation than anyone by the scenes with a tremendous talent, is fashioned this historical novel the fraud, which is so dazzling about the myth and reality, Jamaica and Britain, honesty and dishonesty, and the enigma of individuals. It is focused on political populism that needs to be noticed for today’s day to day life. That’s what part of Smith’s thinking, given the level of cultural disruption in 19th century Engl

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Gunning, Dave. "S.I. MARTIN’SINCOMPARABLE WORLDAND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR BLACK BRITISH HISTORICAL FICTION." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 43, no. 2 (2007): 203–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449850701430622.

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Singer, Rita. "‘[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction’: Fictionalising the French invasion of Fishguard." Literature & History 33, no. 2 (2024): 119–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03061973241295331.

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In the years leading up to the centenary of the last invasion of the British mainland, several historical novels in Welsh and English chronicled the events of the French landing near Fishguard in 1797. These fictional explorations throw Welsh national identity into relief at a time when Britain consolidated its domestic and overseas territories against its main rival, France. While ostensibly set in the historical past, the novels under observation share significant traits with the popular genre of the invasion novel that came to the fore in the second half of the nineteenth century as the Bri

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Niama, Haidyr Hashim. "IMPACT OF BRITISH LITERATURE ON GLOBAL LITERATURE." American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations 6, no. 6 (2024): 176–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajssei/volume06issue06-24.

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The influence of British literature on global literature is enormous. In so many ways, British literature has influenced world literature. The Anglo-Saxon period established the British literature tradition, which continues to influence world literature today. In this blog post, we will look at various aspects of British literature's influence on global literature. The study of literary works from the United Kingdom and other countries around the world is known as British and world literature. It includes classic and contemporary works, often translated into English, that reflect regional and

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S, Sengol Mery. "Alternative History Creation in Su Venkatesan's Police Line." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-7 (2022): 367–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s757.

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The form of the novel is a historical record based on the fact that it is a reflection of the records of the past. Efforts to recreate the lifestyle of the ancestors through creation by gathering historical information from various fields such as archeology have increased in recent times. When the information thus collected becomes fiction, it becomes fiction or a program of historical events at the discretion of the creator. Novels written in a historical setting can be divided into two categories: direct historical novels and novels that prioritize history and fiction. Novels like Su Venkate

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Hatavara, Mari, and Jarkko Toikkanen. "Sameness and difference in narrative modes and narrative sense making: The case of Ramsey Campbell’s “The Scar”." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 5, no. 1 (2019): 130–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2019-0009.

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AbstractThe article discusses basic questions of narrative studies and definitions of narrative from a historical and conceptual perspective in order to map the terrain between different narratologies. The focus is placed on the question of how fiction interacts with other realms of our lives or, more specifically, how reading fiction both involves and affects our everyday meaning making operations. British horror writer Ramsey Campbell’s (b. 1946) short story “The Scar” (1967) will be used as a test case to show how both narrative modes of representation and the reader’s narrative sense makin

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Pividori, María Cristina. "“Prefer not, eh?”: Re-Scribing the Lives of the Great War Poets in Contemporary British Historical Fiction." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 31 (December 15, 2018): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2018.31.08.

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Although the First World War has become history by now, the memory of the war continues to be repeatedly fictionalised: retrospectively inspired narratives are often regarded as more genuine and far-reaching than historical or documentary accounts in their rendition of the past. Yet, memory is creatively selective, reflecting a highly-conflicted process of sifting and discerning what should be remembered, neglected or amplified from the stream of war experience. In his book about Pat Barker, Mark Rawlinson argues that “historical fiction has been transformed in the post-war period by the way w

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Lidenkova,, Olga. "The motive of absolute рower in contemporary British and Belarusian historical fiction". Scientific papers of Berdiansk State Pedagogical University. Series: Philological sciences 16 (10 жовтня 2018): 121–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.31494/2412-933x-2018-1-6-121-130.

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Jones, Darryl. "Scenes from the Decline and Fall of the American Empire." FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts, no. 05 (December 12, 2007): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/forum.05.584.

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At their zenith, empires become haunted by images of their inevitable demise. This article examines historical theories of imperial decline, as exemplified by the works of Edward Gibbon, C-F Volney and Oswald Spengler, and suggests a recurring concern with 'revolutionary orientalism' in such writings. The USA is currently in its late-imperial decadent phase, and much given in consequence to apocalyptic or catastrophic narratives. These are hardly new - the late-Victorian British Empire produced a large number of disaster fictions hardly less spectacular, with H G Wells foremost amongst his con

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Boccardi, Mariadele. "Postmodernism and the past : A romance." Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 36, no. 1 (2003): 111–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ranam.2003.1673.

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British contemporary historical fiction is the genre that most closely, extensively and fruitfully explores the questions concerning the nature and scope of representation raised by postmodern historical and narrative theory. One interesting trait, common to the most speculative works of historical fiction published in the last fifteen years, is the adoption of Romance in all its modes — as a motif of the plot (the love story) and as a narrative mode (defining itself against the novel). Indeed Romance is the means by which the contemporary historical novel first dramatises and then investigate

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Lidenkova, Olga A. "Literary Space as a Means of Historical Representation in Contemporary British and Belarusian Fiction." Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts 25, no. 1 (2023): 96–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2023.25.1.006.

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Artistic concepts of space in contemporary fiction remain one of the most important tools for explaining, evaluating, and interpreting a particular historical period. This article focuses on the comparative study of the functions of spatial images in the works of modern Belarusian and British writers: H. Mantel, P. Ackroyd, J. Crace, A. Miller, A. Arkush, L. Rublevskaya, V. Orlov, etc. The aim of the study is to identify various aspects, functions, and characteristics of literary landscapes in historical fiction and determine which of them are universal, and which are unique for authors from d

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Markova, Ekaterina A. "British and American Reception of The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreev." RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism 27, no. 2 (2022): 299–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-2-299-322.

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The article deals with the English-language reception of The Red Laugh , one of the most well-known of Leonid Andreev’s texts both in Russia and abroad. As the examples of this reception, a number of newspaper and magazine publications, memoirs, translators’ prefaces, and works of fiction are analyzed. There exist several waves of interest in Andreev’s story. They could be explained either by the appearance of new translations or by significant historic events of the time (the Russian Revolution, World Wars I and II). Andreev’s critics in Britain and America place his story in a variety of con

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Madavi, Dr Manoj Shankarrao. "Colonial Struggle-Revolt of Adivasis against Corporate Policies and It’s Invisibility in Modern Global Fictions of Indian English Literature." International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 2, no. 3 (2022): 57–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijllc.2.3.6.

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The treatment to the adivasi community in Postcolonial Indian English fiction lacks in many grounds. Tribal historical revolts, encroachments of British rule into tribal territories, grabbing lands of the tribals, exploitation of tribal women, cruel landlords, deforestation and degradation of tribal environmental values do not find realistic representation in Indian English fictions. In Gita Mehta's The River Sutra, tribal are shown as the worshipper of Narmada River and performing some ritual on the bank of River Narmada, but tribal religious concerns are not so much the limited and full of s

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Hack, Daniel. "Introduction." Victorian Literature and Culture 47, no. 1 (2018): 93–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150318001328.

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Catherine Gallagher's importance as a scholar of nineteenth-century British culture and a historian and theorist of the novel makes the appearance of a new monograph by her an event for Victorianists (among others). This is true even when few of the materials she discusses are, strictly speaking, Victorian, as is the case with her new book, Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction. In Telling It Like It Wasn't, Gallagher traces the emergence and development of analytic and narrative discourses premised on counterfactual-historical hypotheses. As the auth

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Lv, Xiaotang. "Retrieving the Past—The Historical Theme in Penelope Lively’s Fictions." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 6, no. 10 (2016): 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0610.18.

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Penelope Lively (1933- ), the contemporary British writer, was first known mainly as a children’s writer prior to her winning the 1987 Booker Prize with her widely praised novel Moon Tiger (1987). The Road to Lichfield, published in 1977, is her first adult novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Treasures of Time (1979), her second adult novel, was the winner of Great Britain’s first National Book Award for fiction in 1980 and the Arts Council National Book Award. In her literary fictions, Lively interweaves the present and the past -- history, the public, collective past, and memor

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Abu Bakar, Ayu Haswida bt, and Muhammad Shahrazif Tajul Muhd Majidi. "Historiophoty: Reinterpreting the History in Mat Kilau: Kebangkitan Pahlawan (2022)." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science IX, no. I (2025): 3584–89. https://doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2025.9010285.

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Robert A. Rosenstone’s concept of historiophoty clarifies how historical films can transform facts into visual narratives by integrating factual accuracy with fictional elements, thus crafting creative storytelling that shapes communal memory and meaning. Historical films, as Rosenstone argues, do not depict history; rather, they produce it by fusing drama, narrative, and visuals to bridge the gap between the past and present. Syamsul Yusof examined this method in his work Mat Kilau: Kebangkitan Pahlawan (2022), which reinterprets the valour of the Malay warrior Mat Kilau in the context of the

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Chai, Xiangnan. "The Construction of American National Identity in Cooper's Spy, a Revolutionary Historical Novel." Journal of Literature and Arts Research 2, no. 1 (2025): 25–29. https://doi.org/10.71222/8zbgvx52.

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As a pioneer of American national literature, James Cooper made national identity construction his life's mission. Set in the Revolutionary War, the novel Spy centres around the protagonist Harvey Birch, who travels through the neutral zone in the guise of a freighter to collect British intelligence. Birch travels through the neutral zone in the guise of a cargo man to obtain British intelligence, and is mistaken for a spy by the American army. But for the sake of his country, this truth will never be revealed. Cooper realises the construction of national identity in real historical events, an

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Bubb, Alexander. "An Element of Risk: the Corrupt Contractor in Indian Fiction and Film, 1886–1983." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 4, no. 1 (2017): 109–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2016.33.

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AbstractFrom the 1960s to the 1990s, the corrupt building contractor was a stock-villain of Bombay cinema. He was, this article argues, emblematic of crony capitalism prior to the liberalization of the Indian economy. This filmic role was, however, foreshadowed by his depiction as cynical accomplice and profiteer of British rule in fiction of the early and mid-twentieth century. Furthermore, the figure’s ultimate origins lie in colonial literature, in which he is often identified as a threat to the British civilian community that nourished itself with the ideal of its disinterested civilizing

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Baker, Jessica Swanston. "Sugar, Sound, Speed." Representations 154, no. 1 (2021): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2021.154.3.23.

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This essay presents the song “Area Code 869,” an example of a Caribbean genre known as “wilders” or “pep,” as a form of what Kodwo Eshun calls “sonic fiction.” By focusing on sonic bodies as “bodies touched by sound,” the essay suggests that “869” offers a reimagination of the historical relationship between sugar, sound, and speed in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Kitts, a former British sugar colony.

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Papantonakis, Georgios. "Colonialism and Postcolonialism in Science Fiction for Greek Children." MANUSYA 13, no. 1 (2010): 24–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01301003.

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In contemporary Greek history we do not encounter the historical and social phenomena of colonialism or postcolonialism with the exception of cases where nations conquered Greek islands; the Dodecanese Islands and the Eptanisa (Seven Islands) were conquered by the English and the Italians, and Cyprus was conquered by the British in the Middle Ages and in contemporary times. These historical situations have been transferred into certain historical Greek fictions in adult literature and in the literature of children and young adult. The focus of this essay is on investigating and depicting colon

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Carroll, Rachel. "Black Victorians, British television drama, and the 1978 adaptation of David Garnett’s The Sailor’s Return." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, no. 2 (2017): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416687350.

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The under-representation of Black British history in British film and television drama has attracted significant public debate in recent years. In this context, this article revisits a critically overlooked British film adaptation featuring a woman of African origin as a protagonist in a drama set in Victorian England. The Sailor’s Return (1978), directed by Jack Gold, is an adaptation of a historical fiction written by David Garnett and first published in 1925. This article aims to situate the novel and its adaptation in three important contexts: set in rural Dorset in 1858, the narrative can

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Dr., Shiny Mendonce. "The Forty Rules of Love and Honour: Multi-Layered Narratives by Elif Shafak." Criterion: An International Journal in English 15, no. 1 (2024): 311–18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10795675.

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Elif Shafak, a Turkish-British novelist has made a spellbinding impression in the field of her native literature giving it a rung higher up in the ladder of world literature. In line with the native Turkish tradition of storytelling, Shafak is a storyteller at her best and a feminist writer. The Turkish tradition of telling stories within stories has been utilised to its best by Shafak in all her crowning pieces of fiction and non-fiction. The narrative techniques used by Shafak make her works an enchantment, an easy reading experience with a high level of understanding and intricate levels of

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Bhattacharjee, Dr Bedika. "Reading the Intersection of History, Memory and Local Narratives to Resist Grand Narratives in Ian McEwan’s Atonement." Noesis Literary 2, no. 1 (2025): 16–31. https://doi.org/10.69627/nol2025vol2iss1-02.

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It is not easy to separate a text from the context in which it has been written and the context in which it is being read. The Second World War along with the escalating industrial and technological developments primarily mark the context of Contemporary British Fiction. The kind of transformation that the post-war and the post-industrial situation had brought about in the everyday life undoubtedly led to responses that were critical of such changes and transformations. Thinkers like Nietzsche, Derrida and Foucault questioned the very idea of reality and challenged the structural hierarchy of

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Kovačević, Branka. "Intertextuality in the short story "The Death of Robert Browning" by Jane Urquhart." Reci Beograd 14, no. 15 (2022): 82–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/reci2215082k.

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The aim of this paper is to explore the intertextual dialogue and its meaning that is continuously articulated as cultural heritage in the prose of the well-known Canadian writer Jane Urquhart. By including the famous Victorian poet Robert Browning in the plot of her short story "The Death of Robert Browning," Urquhart highlights the postmodern tendency to express the basic human need to mythologize and perpetuate illusions about death. In a broader context, as an author from Canada, she emphasizes the difference between reality and fiction by revising historical facts through various textual

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Chapman, James. "Alan Burton, Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction Stephen Whitty, The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia." Journal of British Cinema and Television 15, no. 1 (2018): 149–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0409.

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Gullace, Nicoletta F. "A (Very) Open Elite:Downton Abbey, Historical Fiction and America's Romance with the British Aristocracy." Journal of British Cinema and Television 16, no. 1 (2019): 9–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2019.0453.

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This article argues that the success of Downton Abbey hinges on the superimposition of progressive values onto the conservative nostalgia of heritage film. By depicting unequal class relations as consensual and allowing a measure of sexual freedom among its characters, Downton creates an alluring Tory past which is nevertheless acceptable to modern viewers. Fans' belief in the historical accuracy of the Downton fantasy and their intense desire for connection with it has left academic historians struggling to make sense of the show. The article draws on the author's experience of participating

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LIDZIANKOVA, V. "THE CONCEPT OF A HISTORICAL SPIRAL IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION OF BRITISH AND BELARUSIAN AUTHORS." Herald of Polotsk State University. Series A. Humanity sciences, no. 4 (September 5, 2024): 53–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.52928/2070-1608-2024-72-4-53-56.

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The article is devoted to the comparative study of the changing tendencies in the ways the key moments of national history are depicted in the works of contemporary British and Belarusian authors. The study is based on the works by H. Mantel, P. Akroyd, L. Daineko, L. Rublevskaya, Z. Kaminskaya. The article identifies the patterns of evolution of character types among writers of different generations. The idea of the cyclical development of history is on the one hand, a way of social commentary on contemporary social trends, for which history provides a much broader context and creative freedo

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Siberry, Elizabeth. "Fact and Fiction: Children and the Crusades." Studies in Church History 31 (1994): 417–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400013024.

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In addition to those who could bear arms, the crusade armies included numerous camp-followers. They came in a variety of forms—the old and infirm, women (who posed a different set of problems), the clergy, and children. It is the latter who are the subject of this paper. In the first part I will examine the evidence for children on the crusades in contemporary sources— histories of individual expeditions written by participants or drawing upon eyewitness accounts. I will then go on to examine how the image of children on the crusades has been passed on to subsequent generations. I do not inten

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Tageldin, Shaden M. "Fénelon’s Gods, al-Ṭahṭāwī’s Jinn". Philological Encounters 2, № 1-2 (2017): 139–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24519197-00000023.

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Reading Rifāʿa al-Ṭahṭāwī’s 1850s Arabic translation (published 1867) of François Fénelon’sLes Aventures de Télémaquewith and against the realist impulses of nineteenth-century British and French literary comparatism, this essay posits al-Ṭahṭāwī’s translation as a transformational moment in the reception of the “European” literary tradition in the Arab-Islamic world. Arguing that the ancient Greek gods who populate Fénelon’s 1699 sequel to Homer’sOdysseyare analogous to Muslim jinn—spirits of smokeless fire understood to be real—al-Ṭahṭāwī rewrites as Islamized “truth” what Muslims long had

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Stotesbury, John A. "Detecting a Literary Future in the Historical Past: The Gibraltar Case." Armenian Folia Anglistika 11, no. 2 (14) (2015): 123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2015.11.2.123.

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Until the present millennium, very little creative literary writing in either English or Spanish had been published in the British colonial enclave of Gibraltar. Given the small population size of the autonomous community of some 30,000 people, it was considered unlikely that a “national” literary culture could form. In the course of the past decade, a handful of dedicated writers have published a noticeable amount of fiction, all of which is concerned with establishing a recognized Gibraltarian literary identity. The present article, while not arguing for the permanence of a Gibraltarian nati

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Abidha, K. P., and Aysha Swapna K. A. Dr. "Tipu Sultan and Malabar: A Conundrum of History, Fiction and Colonial Discourse." Criterion: An International Journal in English 16, no. 2 (2025): 478–88. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15316479.

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History aims to provide a factual account of past events, but the intertwined nature of history and fiction at times leads to misconceptions and misrepresentations. The history of Malabar, a province of Kerala was often shaped by such misconceptions, shaped by colonial objectives. Malabar Coast became a strategic position for trade and military interventions for Tipu Sultan and the English East India Company. Being a formidable enemy of the English East India Company, Tipu Sultan, the King of Mysore was represented as a cruel and fanatical ruler. The English historians chose Tipu’s milit

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Maltby, Judith. "‘Oh Dear, if Only the Reformation had Happened Differently’: Anglicanism, the Reformation and Dame Rose Macaulay (1881–1958)." Studies in Church History 48 (2012): 423–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400001480.

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‘Take my camel, dear’, said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.Thus begins, with one of the most memorable opening sentences in twentieth-century Anglophone fiction, Dame Rose Macaulay’s novel The Towers of Trebizond. It is now largely seen as a somewhat quirky ‘niche novel’ for Anglican aunts or a perfect present for the diminishing number of ordinands with historical and literary interests. In fact, Trebizond was a transatlantic literary sensation, a best-seller as well as a critical success. It won Macaulay the prestigious James Tait Black Memoria

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Sands-O'Connor, Karen. "Is Puffin a Plus for Diversity in Young Adult Literature? The Move from Peacock to Puffin Plus." International Journal of Young Adult Literature 4, no. 1 (2023): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24877/ijyal.123.

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From 1981 to 1994, Penguin Books published literature for young adults under the ‘Puffin Plus’ imprint. Although Penguin had been publishing young adult literature since 1962, through its ‘Peacock’ imprint, Puffin Plus’s editors tried to radically alter the way that books for teenagers were selected and marketed in order to increase their readership. But while Puffin Plus editors attempted to connect with readers through covers that mimicked magazine and advertising techniques, they ignored contemporary teens’ political activism and interest in the cultures and lifestyles of their peers. This

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Harenda, Olivier. "Colonial Encounter and Imperial Legacy in Paul Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown." Hemispheres.Studies on Cultures and Societies 38 (2023): 59–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.60018/hemi.vwrs7171.

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The article explores the issues of colonial encounter as well as imperial legacy on the basis of Paul Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown novel from 1966. The imperial project was heavily promoted by the authorities in the 19th century, but the dissolution of the Empire between the 1940s and the 1960s led to the emergence of a critical type of historical fiction crafted by British writers who experienced the imperial system at first hand. The Jewel in the Crown exemplifies complex attitudes as well as archetypal patterns among the colonisers and the natives in British India. The analysis shows that

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Morozova, Iryna, and Anastasia Vakulenko. "Strategies and tactics of the British parental discourse: historical perspective." 97, no. 97 (June 28, 2023): 22–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2786-5312-2023-97-03.

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This article studies verbal and non-verbal means of implementing parental discourse strategies and tactics used by representatives of the British linguistic and cultural community of the 18th and 21st centuries and establishes the changes they underwent in the speech of the father’s and the mother’s discursive personality. The research is substantiated by linguists’ growing interest in the ways communicative behaviour is formed, including its diachronic aspects. The research is aimed at establishing characteristic features of British parents and children’s communication basing on British ficti

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O'Dell, Benjamin D. "Historicity." Victorian Literature and Culture 51, no. 3 (2023): 423–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015032300027x.

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Historicity—that is, a cultural and aesthetic engagement with historical movement—is a crucial term for analyzing and evaluating what we commonly call “realist” fiction. In The Historical Novel (1939), Georg Lukács famously associated literature's historicity with the realist novel's ability to capture historical movement through typical characters, a feature he tied to Walter Scott's historical romances. For Lukács, Scott's “faithfulness” to history does not imply “a chronicle-like, naturalistic reproduction of language, mode of thought, and feeling of the past.” Rather, it comes from the way

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О.А., Москаленко,, and Ирхин, А.А. "A Socio-Economic Model of Chronotope: Russia in British Perception." Диалог со временем, no. 81(81) (December 24, 2022): 18–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.21267/aquilo.2022.81.81.002.

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В статье раскрывается методологическая функциональность и область применения мир-системного подхода в анализе документально-исторических и литературных текстов и определяется роль образов власти в актуализации хронотопа литературных произведений о «Других» в рамках имагологии как науки, изучающей не просто образы Других с сопоставительной точки зрения, а в их манипулятивной, социально-идеологической функции в качестве средства формирования и трансформации национально-культурной идентичности. Образ лидера, т.н. «властителя эпохи» (субъект структурирования пространства и времени) как интерпретац

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Gardiner, Kelly. "Love on the Rocks: Lighthouses in Literature as Gendered Geographies of Love." Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 7, no. 2 (2023): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.20897/femenc/13559.

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The lighthouse has long been a familiar setting for stories of love, conflict, and epiphany. That isolated tower on the clifftop brims with symbolic possibility and sometimes cliché, positioning it as a site of gendered love, with popular fiction titles embedding the trope of the contained world revolving, like the lit lamp, around the male authority. But the lighthouse also has an explicit historical situatedness. The nineteenth century British lighthouses, in particular, were seen as outposts of empire. They are immovable inscriptions of the outlines of islands, the edges of continents – the

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Bas, Isil. "Fact and fiction: subverting orientalism in Ann Bridge's The dark moment." Acta Neophilologica 46, no. 1-2 (2013): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.46.1-2.53-63.

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While postcolonial criticism has extensively traced the Western women writers's accounts of the Orient, Ann Bridge's contribution to the genre remained unheard-of. In The Dark Moment she tells the story of the foundation of the Turkish republic after the struggle against Western imperialism, a theme highly controversial for a British diplomat's wife. Moreover, she plays with the conventions and representational strategies of traditional Orientalist narratives inverting each in turn to create an unprejudiced awareness of the historical context and the social and cultural specificities of Turkey

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Bour, Isabelle. "What Happened to the ‘Truth Universally Acknowledged’? Translation as Reception of Jane Austen in France." Humanities 11, no. 4 (2022): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11040077.

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There are now, in 2022, sixteen French translations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The incipit includes one of the most famous statements in the English language, as well as a modal auxiliary, the rendering of which constitutes a minor challenge for any translator. This essay will analyse all translations of the incipit, relating translation choices to historical circumstances, the contemporary status of British literature and attitudes to the translation of fiction as well as to the state of the book market.

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Chalupský, Petr. "Neo-Victorian felony – Crime narratives in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project and Ian McGuire’s The North Water." Ars Aeterna 13, no. 2 (2021): 16–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2021-0008.

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Abstract The neo-Victorian novel has been one of the most significant branches of contemporary British historical fiction for the past three decades. Thanks to works like A. S. Byatt’s Possession, Sarah Waters’ trilogy Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith and Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, the genre has gained not only considerable popularity among readers, but also almost a canonical literary status. Although recent neo-Victorian fiction has been trying to find some new ways in which the genre could avoid stereotypical narratives, it still retains its most determining

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Fadla, Raja, and Mohammed Shaheen. "‘‘Voicing the Voiceless’’: The Significance of the Fictional Journalist in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling With Djinns (2004)." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 11 (2022): 2381–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1211.19.

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The present article emphasizes the role of the fictional journalist as a representative of his nation in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns (2004).It equally ventures into establishing a connection between the characterization of the journalist and the postcolonial and cultural analyses, shedding light on the role of the ‘‘fourth estate’’ in giving voice to the silenced nations. The paper specifically examines how the British- Sudanese protagonist Yasin and his father committed themselves to journalism and took the responsibility to speak on behalf of their nation. Additionally, it stresse

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Drozdovskyi, Dmytro. "HISTORICAL MEASURES AND PHILOSOPHICAL FEATURES OF BRITISH POST-POSTOMODERNISM: OUTLINING THE CONCEPT OF «CONNECTEDNESS»." English and American Studies 1, no. 17 (2020): 97–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/382017.

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In the paper, the author states that in the UK the emergence of theoretical compendia that represent and simultaneously revise the literary landscape of this country (as well as the United States), determines the necessity to outline the boundaries of the period, which in these works is defined as post-postmodernism. The latter concept has no clear theoretical explication and is discussed in the form of literary directions (altermodernism, digimodernism, metamodernism) that define new aesthetic and philosophical grounds that differ from postmodernism. In the paper, the author substantiates the

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