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Alfred Duggan's past.(Critical Essay)
It is no use making any large claims for historical fiction. As is the case with science fiction, the historical genre certainly has its masterpieces. Yet with few exceptions--Henry Esmond, perhaps, War and Peace, and one or two others--even these masterpieces are understood to dwell in a realm separate from the main body of literary endeavor. It does not help that the lowest and most popular kind of historical novel is nowadays widely known by a rather demeaning sobriquet, one that escaped from the back rooms of publishing houses into general circulation around 1980: "bodice-ripper." It is hard to take a novel seriously when, on picking it up, you have that expression in ...
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...It's not only the amount of historical fiction for kids that is rising fast. "The quality of historical fiction in Canada has gone way up...Holocaust, thinks the boom in historical fiction is part of a general explosion...
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...professional journals have touted the use of historical fiction to address social studies concepts...unit as a case study for infusing historical fiction into the broader social studies curriculum...The Selection of The Killer Angels Historical fiction affords an opportunity to ...
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- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine MacLeod, Anne Scott January 1, 1998 700+ words
...expect we can all agree that historical fiction should be good fiction...revisionism makes its way into historical fiction, of course, including...ought to be more. Too much historical fiction for children is stepping...
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