The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Histories and heroines: the female figure in contemporary historical fiction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The virtuosa and the ventriloquists: Janice Galloway’s Clara ....Pages 23-40
Making up, or making over: Reconstructing the modern female author....Pages 41-59
A deviant device: Diary dissembling in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace ....Pages 60-75
Whoso list to hunt’: The literary fortunes of Anne Boleyn....Pages 76-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Do knights still rescue damsels in distress?: Reimagining the medieval in Mills & Boon historical romance....Pages 95-114
Sexual f(r)ictions: Pornography in neo-Victorian women’s fiction....Pages 115-133
Re-claiming Anne Damer/re-covering Sapphic history: Emma Donoghue’s Life Mask ....Pages 134-152
Things slipping between past and present: Feminism and the gothic in Kate Mosse’s Sepulchre ....Pages 153-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Imagine. Investigate. Intervene?: A consideration of feminist intent and metafictive invention in the historical fictions of A. S. Byatt and Marina Warner....Pages 171-188
In defence of fiction: History and imagination in Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and The Lieutenant ....Pages 189-205
Difficulties, discontinuities and differences: Reading women’s historical fiction....Pages 206-221
Writing historical fiction: Thoughts from two practitioners....Pages 222-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-241