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Recreating the past - historical and neo-historical fiction.

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Feb2019 (Volume) 83
Medium (Periodical) E Magazine: the A-level English magazine.
Classif 820 EMA
Subject English literature
Page 41 - 45
Authors Tredell, Nicolas
Contents

Ranging widely across novels of the 20th and 21st century, the author outlines the key characteristics of historical fiction, as well as identifying the extra dimensions that make contemporary neo-historical fiction somewhat different.

Keywords
2nd World War     Ian McEwan     Kazuo Ishiguro     L. P. Hartley     Pat Barker     Robert Graves     World War 1     World War 2     World War One