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Emotional histories and historical emotions: looking at the past in historical novels

journal contribution
posted on 2010-01-01, 00:00 authored by Sarah PintoSarah Pinto
For anyone interested in the past and its representation, historical novels are difficult to ignore. Unlike a multitude of other alternative representations of the past that have been brought into historical view, however, historical novels have been largely excluded from scholarly historical analysis. Although historians might find historical novels fascinating, might read them voraciously, might teach courses on or around them, and might even write them while on sabbaticals, this engagement is not reflected in the pages of their work. Taking Kate Grenville's controversial Australian novel The secret river (2005) as a case study, this article considers the emotional ways in which historical novels make sense of their pasts, offering a methodological way forward in the historical analysis of the genre.

History

Journal

Rethinking History

Volume

14

Pagination

189-207

Location

Oxford, UK

ISSN

1364-2529

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2010, Taylor & Francis

Issue

2

Publisher

Routledge