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Creating Memory: Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature) - Softcover

Mendlesohn, Farah

 
9783030545390: Creating Memory: Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

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This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction—primarily fiction for the young. The text argues that the English Civil War lies at the heart of English and Irish political identities and considers how these identities have been shaped over the past three centuries in part by the children’s literature that has influenced the popular memory of the English Civil War. Examining nearly two hundred works of historical fiction, Farah Mendlesohn reveals the delicate interplay between fiction and history.


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About the Author

Farah Mendlesohn is Associate Fellow of The Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy, UK. She has a PhD in History, focusing on the Spanish Civil War She was Professor and Head of Department of English and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, from 2012-2017. Previous books include Rhetorics of Fantasy (2009) and Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children’s Literature (2009).


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This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction―primarily fiction for the young. The text argues that the English Civil War lies at the heart of English and Irish political identities and considers how these identities have been shaped over the past three centuries in part by the children’s literature that has influenced the popular memory of the English Civil War. Examining nearly two hundred works of historical fiction, Farah Mendlesohn reveals the delicate interplay between fiction and history.

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9783030545369: Creating Memory: Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)

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ISBN 10:  3030545369 ISBN 13:  9783030545369
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
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