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Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction
By (Author) Margaret Scanlan
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
823.91409358
Hardback
226
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
Is the historical novel the outmoded genre that some people imagine--form inseparable from romanticism, nationalism, and the nineteenth century In this stimulating volume, Margaret Scanlan answers a convincing "no," as she demonstrates the relevance of historical novels by well-known figures such as Anthony Burgess, John le Carr, Graham Greene, Do