Historical fiction / editor, Virginia Brackett, Park University, Missouri.

Contributor Brackett, Virginia, editor.

Edition Statement:1st edition.

Imprint:Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, c2018.

Descriptionxxix, 258 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:About This Volume / Virginia Brackett ; On Historical Fiction / Virginia Brackett -- Critical Contexts. More Than Sixty Years Hence: Historicizing the Historical Novel / Danielle Barkley ; Historical Fiction and Its Critics: From Sir Walter Scott to Contemporary Young Adult Literature / Steven T. Bickmore ; Imagining the Other: Female Protagonists of Young Adult Historical Fiction Voicing Alternative Perspectives / Mary Warner ; Identity Formation in Young Adult Holocaust Historical Fiction: Comparative Analysis of Lois Lowry's Number the Stars and Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed / Jeffrey S. Kaplan -- Critical Readings. Historical Fiction: A Comparative Analysis of Medieval Romance and Scott's Ivanhoe / Christine E. Kozikowski ; Tales of Other Times: The Gothic Novel as Historical Fiction / Natalie Neill ; Made of Legend and History: The Robin Hood Tradition in Young Adult Literature / Amanda L. Anderson ; Through a Glass, Lightly: Translating History for Young Readers / Chris Crowe ; James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Scholastic: Reading Mary Pope Osborne's Standing in the Light as Reimagining the Power of Cross-Cultural Friendship in the American Historical Contact Narrative / LuElla D'Amico ; "We Must Have Some Sport": The Afflicted Girls of Salem in Fiction for Young Adults / Marta Maria Gutierrez Rodriguez ; Historical Crossover in Chinese and Chinese-American Fiction: The Outlaws, Plus One Cross-dresser / Sheng-mei Ma ; Representation of the American Civil War in Contemporary Historical Fiction for Young Adults: Why We Read about the Civil War / Amy Cummins ; "Sixty Million and More": Family and Sacrifice in the African-American Historical Novel / Jericho Williams ; New Voices of History: The Depression Era and Historical Fiction in America / Sara Rutkowski ; Meeting the Mirabals in In the Time of the Butterflies: Real Figures in Historical Biographical Fiction / Christine De Vinne.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographic references and index.

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