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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Fiction: Choosing And Using : The Primary English Curriculum
1,391 words, approx. 5 pages See also adventure stories, animal stories, Book Trust, class reader, emotional literacy, enabling adult, figurative language, historical novel, history of children’s literature, picture books, playscripts, poetry, novel, reading environment,... summary from source:
Historical Novel : The Primary English Curriculum
598 words, approx. 2 pagesSee also adventure stories, biography, history & English, history of children’s literature, novel Good historical fiction helps children develop sensitivity to the different textures of particular historical periods. If we are reading a... summary from source:
 Historical novel Information
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A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author. As such, the historical novel is distinguished from the alternate-history... 
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 The New Leader The Problem with Historical Novels.
03/01/2000: 2,735 words, approx. 9 pages HISTORICAL FICTION was already considered a slightly degraded genre a century and a half ago, when William Makepeace Thackeray poked fun at trashy romances that featured historical figures more as scenery than as characters. And while the historical novel has had its fair... summary from source:
Newsweek Recasting the past. (popularity of historical novels)
04/06/1998: 482 words, approx. 2 pages Novelist are clamoring to rewrite history Charles Frazier may be historical fiction's latest poster boy, but he's had a lot of competition for the title. Last year Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Caleb Carr also produced best-selling historical fiction. And this spring... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Distilled in Brooklyn\'d1 A Fine Historical Novel
4/16/2006: 1,315 words, approx. 4 pagesWe treasure and enjoy some novelists because they offer us a world, and let us feel we can enter it like original inhabitants. It’s a going home, even if we’ve never been there before. I’ve heard of Americans so intoxicated by the novels of Thomas... summary from source:
The New York Observer Distilled in Brooklyn- A Fine Historical Novel
4/16/2006: 1,313 words, approx. 4 pagesWe treasure and enjoy some novelists because they offer us a world, and let us feel we can enter it like original inhabitants. It’s a going home, even if we’ve never been there before. I’ve heard of Americans so intoxicated by the novels of Thomas...
Literary Criticism
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 James C. Simmons
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In the following excerpt, Simmons analyzes the changing role of historical accuracy in the Victorian historical novel.
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Andrew Sanders
9,795 words, approx. 33 pages
In this excerpt, Sanders examines the impact of Sir Walter Scott's work on later historical novelists, discussing in detail the advances made within the genre by such writers as Charles Reade and George Eliot.
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Joseph W. Turner
9,073 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Turner identifies three categories of historical fiction—documented, invented, and disguised historical novels—and discusses the boundaries between history and fiction.
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