As some of you may already be aware the IHR are already building up to our Novel Approaches virtual conference on our IHR Digital Blog with a series of blog posts investigating the history of historical fiction and its relationship to academic history.
I’m the author of those posts (Matt Phillpott Project Officer for History SPOT) and I won’t claim to be an expert in this particular field. However, I nevertheless thought it would be interesting and fun to investigate the literature on the subject with a view to understanding its ebbs and flows from a beginners point of view.
If you haven’t already done so please do join me for this ‘prelude’.
Posts so Far:
A Novel Approaches prelude: A Brief History of Historical Fiction
A Novel Approaches Prelude (2): Theories of historical fiction
A Novel Approaches prelude (3): Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley – The first historical novel? Part One
A Novel Approaches prelude (4): Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley – The first historical novel? Part Two
The next post will be published at 3pm on Friday 11 November with subsequent posts published on the following Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Posts will then continue daily throughout the week of the virtual conference ending with their collation on Friday 25 November on the virtual conference site.
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