Historical Fictions, Fictional Fashions and Time: Orlando as the ‘Angel of History’

2010 ◽  
pp. 75-95
Author(s):  
Angeliki Spiropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fictions

scholarly journals ‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in Literature and History

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25
Author(s):  
Siobhan Talbott
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
War In Literature ◽  
Historical Fictions

This article examines a range of fictional literature – poetry, prose, play and song produced between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries – that represents aspects of the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict fought in Europe from 1618 to 1648. Depiction of the Thirty Years’ War in literary works is compared to that found in empirical historical evidence and historians’ analyses. It is concluded that historical fictions offer a different, but equally valid, account of the conflict to academic histories, and that by using historical fictions and empirical evidence together, a more holistic picture of events is offered than academic histories alone provide.

The Walter Scott Experience

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Goode
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Lost Cause ◽  
Living History ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Historical Reenactment ◽  
Colonial Williamsburg ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Living History Museum ◽  
Historical Fictions

Goode explores how Scott’s “potent historical fictions,” their “historically resigned but elegiac narrative of the Jacobite rebellions,” are deployed by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Southern Confederacy, to make sense of the “noble lost cause” of the American Civil War. For Goode, Scott’s own narrative “revivification” is best understood as an “ontological project of historical reenactment,” one that not only found resonance with apologists of the vanquished Confederacy but that is literalized in the long-running fantasy spectacle of the “living history museum” at “colonial” Williamsburg, Virginia.

Young Lions and Historical Fictions 1990–2000

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-284
Author(s):  
Kevin Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Kansas City ◽  
Tourette's Syndrome ◽  
Tourette’S Syndrome ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Cable Tv ◽  
Historical Fictions ◽  
Django Reinhardt

The young generation of musicians such as Wynton and Branford Marsalis who shook up jazz in the 1980s arrives on screen in the following decade. Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues and the cable-TV movie Lush Life fictionalize successful musicians of the era. Underage players also show up, as in 1940s movies: a teenage Toronto trumpeter gets advice from good and bad mentors in one, and a young pianist grapples with Tourette’s syndrome in another. In the 1990s, we see an outbreak of historical tales with unreliable narrators: a sometimes fanciful biopic of early jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and Woody Allen’s extended tall tale Sweet and Lowdown, one of two 1990s films with a guitarist beholden to Django Reinhardt. In several particulars, Robert Altman’s Kansas City parallels his earlier film named for a musicians’ hub, Nashville, but in Kansas City, jazz doesn’t invade the main story.

Historical Fictions: Essays on Literature

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 306
Author(s):  
Bernard F. Dick ◽  
Hugh Kenner
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fictions
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