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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 perspectivesin 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.  \nSusan C. Brantly is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison, USA.  \nRoutledge Studies in Comparative Literature  \n1 Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English  \nEdited by Peter I. Barta and Phil Powrie  \n2 Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy  \nEdited by Nicolás Fernández-Medina and Maria Truglio  \n3 The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era  \nPresenting the Past  \nSusan C. Brantly  \n4 Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil  \nEdited by Vinicius de Carvalho and Nicola Gavioli  \nThe Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era  \nPresenting the Past  \nSusan C. Brantly  \nFirst published 2017  \nby Routledge  \n711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business  \n© 2017 Taylor & Francis  \nThe right of Susan C. Brantly to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nTrademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data has been applied for.  \nISBN: 978 1 138 23025 5 (hbk)  \nISBN: 978 1 315 38646 1 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by codeMantra  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments vii  \nIntroduction: The Historical Novel and Transnationalism 1  \n1 Historical Metaphors on the Postmodern Palette 17  \n2 Nation Building and the Need for Authenticity: Per Anders Fogelström’s Stockholm Series 37  \n3 Playing with Historical Conventions: P. C. Jersild’s Return of the Geniuses 62  \n4 Imagining a Place in the Past: Gender and the Historical Novel 76  \n5 History, National Identity, and Race: Ola Larsmo’s  \nThe Maroon Mountain 102  \n6 The Enlightenment and Postcolonialism:  \nTournier’s Friday, Delblanc’s Speranza,  \nand Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger 117  \n7 ","cbCaigraAWHc2VmP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigraAWHc2VmP","pdf",1435589,200,"English","# Contents\n## Acknowledgments\n## Introduction: The Historical Novel and Transnationalism\n## 1 Historical Metaphors on the Postmodern Palette\n## 2 Nation Building and the Need for Authenticity: Per Anders Fogelström’s Stockholm Series\n## 3 Playing with Historical Conventions: P. C. Jersild’s Return of the Geniuses\n## 4 Imagining a Place in the Past: Gender and the Historical Novel\n## 5 History, National Identity, and Race: Ola Larsmo’s The Maroon Mountain\n## 6 The Enlightenment and Postcolonialism\n## 7 Defending the Enlightenment\n## 8 Digging up the Past: The Case of Charles XII\n## Bibliography\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What core questions does the book raise about historical novels?\",\"answer\":\"The book asks how authors represent the past, and how factors such as nationality or gender affect artistic choices, as well as how far historical novels can appeal to transnational audiences.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book link historical fiction to transnationalism and nationhood?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that histories can communicate across borders by invoking or deconstructing nationhood, making the historical novel a transnational tool for thinking about nations and nationalism.\"},{\"question\":\"What postmodern concerns influence the genre according to the study?\",\"answer\":\"The volume traces postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, while emphasizing that not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are themselves postmodern.\"}]","The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era - Presenting the Past | PDF",1789986274,308]