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Critical Insights: Historical Fiction

Table of Contents

About This Volume, Virginia Brackett




On Historical Fiction, Virginia Brackett




More Than Sixty Years Hence: Historicizing the Historical Novel, Danielle Barkley




Historical Fiction and Its Critics: From Sir Walter Scott to Contemporary Young Adult Literature, Steven T. Bickmore




Imagining the Other: Female Protagonists of Young Adult Historical Fiction Voicing Alternative Perspectives, Mary Warner




Identity Formation in Young Adult Holocaust Historical Fiction: Comparative Analysis of Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars and Jerry Spinelli’s Milkweed, Jeffrey S. Kaplan




Historical Fiction: A Comparative Analysis of Medieval Romance and Scott’s Ivanhoe, Christine E. Kozikowski




Tales of Other Times: The Gothic Novel as Historical Fiction, Natalie Neill




Made of Legend and History: The Robin Hood Tradition in Young Adult Literature, Amanda L. Anderson




Through a Glass, Lightly: Translating History for Young Readers, Chris Crowe




James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Scholastic: Reading Mary Pope Osborne’s Standing in the Light as Reimagining the Power of Cross-Cultural Friendship in the American Historical Contact Narrative, LuElla D’Amico




“We Must Have Some Sport”: The Afflicted Girls of Salem in Fiction for Young Adults, Marta María Gutiérrez Rodríguez




Historical Crossover in Chinese and Chinese-American Fiction: The Outlaws, Plus One Cross-dresser, Sheng-mei Ma




Representation of the American Civil War in Contemporary Historical Fiction for Young Adults: Why We Read about the Civil War, Amy Cummins




“Sixty Million and More”: Family and Sacrifice in the African-American Historical Novel, Jericho Williams




New Voices of History: The Depression Era and Historical Fiction in America, Sara Rutkowski




Meeting the Mirabals in In the Time of the Butterflies: Real Figures in Historical Biographical Fiction, Christine De Vinne




Further Reading




Bibliography




About the Editor




Contributors