LEADER 03881oam 2200541I 450 001 9910165046103321 005 20240505202053.0 010 $a1-315-38646-1 010 $a1-315-38644-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315386461 035 $a(CKB)3710000001060448 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4809765 035 $a(OCoLC)971248766 035 $a(BIP)59134416 035 $a(BIP)57131953 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001060448 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe historical novel, transnationalism, and the postmodern era $epresenting the past /$fSusan C. Brantly 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (200 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge Studies in Comparative Literature ;$v3 311 08$a1-138-23025-1 311 08$a1-315-38645-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Historical metaphors on the postmodern palette -- 2. Nation-building and the need for authenticity : Per Anders Fogelstrom's Stockholm series -- 3. Playing with historical conventions : P.C. Jersild's Return of the geniuses -- 4. Imagining a place in the past : gender and the historical novel -- 5. History, national identity, and race : Ola Larsmo's The maroon mountain -- 6. The enlightenment and postcolonialism : Tournier's Friday, Delblanc's Speranza, and Unsworth's Sacred hunger -- 7. Defending the enlightenment : P.O. Enquist's The magnetist's fifth winter and The royal physician's visit -- 8. Digging up the past : the case of Charles XII. 330 $aThis volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author's nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like. 410 0$aRoutledge studies in comparative literature ;$v3. 606 $aHistorical fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and transnationalism 606 $aHistory in literature 615 0$aHistorical fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and transnationalism. 615 0$aHistory in literature. 676 $a809.3/81 700 $aBrantly$b Susan C.$0866872 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910165046103321 996 $aThe historical novel, transnationalism, and the postmodern era$91935031 997 $aUNINA