Creating Memory: Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars

✍ Scribed by Farah Mendlesohn

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 324
Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
The English Civil Wars (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 1-12
Selecting the Historical Fiction (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 13-23
As We Understand History, so We Understand Fiction (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 25-47
The Cultural Landscape of the Civil Wars (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 49-70
Great Men and Great Battles (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 71-107
Men and Women (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 109-141
Religion (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 143-174
By the Sword Divided (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 175-195
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 197-221
The Commonwealth and the Protectorate (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 223-250
The Restoration (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 251-264
Conclusion (Farah Mendlesohn)....Pages 265-269
Back Matter ....Pages 271-315

✦ Subjects

Literature; Children's Literature; Literary History; Literature, general; European Literature; European History

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