The Anachronistic Turn

ISBN-13: 9781032222516 / Twarda / 2023 / 232 str.

Stephanie (Macquarie University) Russo

Opis

The book is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethink the relationship between past and present.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: remixing the past 2. Biblical histories 3. Women's histories 4. The historical musical 5. The history play 6. Queens on screen 7. Writers on screen: Dickinson 8. Conclusion: the future of the past

O autorze

Stephanie Russo is Discipline Chair of Literature at Macquarie University, Australia. She has published widely on historical fiction and women’s writing. She is the author of The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen (2020).