Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Murnaghan ◽  
Deborah H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Adult Readers ◽  
Pleasure Reading ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Classical Myths ◽  
Classical Culture

The book’s subject is the widespread and formative reception of classical culture that takes place in childhood, with a specific focus on children’s pleasure reading in Britain and America from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The production of literature designed to foster children’s connection to antiquity is identified as an adult project, which begins with the retelling of classical myths in the 1850s and which this study traces primarily in myth collections and works of historical fiction. Attention is also given to adults’ memories of their own childhood encounters with antiquity and the uses and meanings assigned to those encounters in memoirs and other works for adult readers.

scholarly journals Corporate Defaults, Workouts, and the Rise of the Distressed Asset Investment Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Cumming ◽  
Grant Fleming
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Scale Effects ◽  
The United States ◽  
Corporate Restructuring ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

We examine the formation and growth of the distressed asset investment industry during the late twentieth century, with specific focus on the strategies of the leading firms. The distressed asset investment industry is dominated by firms based in the United States and is relatively concentrated, due in large part to early movers developing distinctive investment capabilities through participation in landmark transactions, relationship-specific resources, and exploitation of scale effects. We argue that the participation of these firms in the bankruptcy and corporate restructuring markets has resulted in private-sector workouts becoming more competitive and more efficient over the last thirty years, especially in the United States.

scholarly journals Transgender and The Literary Imagination

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Gender Reassignment ◽  
Jazz Musician ◽  
Post War ◽  
American Authors ◽  
Selection Of

Transgender and the Literary Imagination examines a selection of literary fiction by British, Irish and American authors first published between 1918 and 2000, each text featuring a protagonist (and in some cases two) whose gender identity differs from that assigned to them at birth: George Moore’s naturalistic novella set in an 1860s Dublin hotel, Albert Nobbs (1918); Angela Carter’s dystopian feminist fantasy The Passion of New Eve (1977); Jackie Kay’s contemporary fiction inspired by the life of a post-war jazz musician, Trumpet (1998); Patricia Duncker’s historical fiction based on the life of a nineteenth-century colonial military surgeon, James Miranda Barry (1999); David Ebershoff’s The Danish Girl (2000), a rewriting of the life of Lili Elbe, reputed to be the first person to undergo gender reassignment treatment. A key concern for this study is the way in which transgender lives – whether historical or fictional – have been ‘authored by others’: named, defined and appropriated in ways which obscure, displace or erase transgender experiences, identities and histories. By revisiting twentieth-century narratives and their afterlives, including stage and film adaptations, this book aims to examine the legacies of this representational history, exploring the extent to which transgender potential can be recovered and realised.

Ancient History for Girls

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Murnaghan ◽  
Deborah H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Classical World ◽  
History Texts ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Ancient Record ◽  
Ancient Women

This chapter considers the strategies used to make history texts and works of historical fiction set in antiquity appealing to girl readers of the first half of the twentieth century, who were increasingly exposed to books with active girl heroines. Despite the severe constraints on ancient women and girls, such writers as Dorothy Mills, Caroline Dale Snedeker, Erick Berry, and Naomi Mitchison contrive to provide their readers with independent, resourceful ancient counterparts. They achieve this by filling in the silences of the ancient record, setting their stories on the spatial and temporal margins of the classical world, and devising plots in which girls act in the place of absent or inadequate brothers.

KVLTER than KVLT: ‘True (Norwegian) black metal’ and the satanic politics of Bataillean ‘authenticity’

Popular Music ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (03) ◽  
pp. 518-537
Author(s):  
Eva Bujalka
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
Black Metal ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Theories Of Religion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second Wave

AbstractAlthough there has recently been significant work published on the relationship between twentieth-century French (anti-)philosopher Georges Bataille's theories of religion and violence, and the sound and politics of black metal, little has been done to address Bataille's and black metal's shared concern with the problem of ‘authenticity’. Their concern, determined by their complicity with ‘evil’, is centred on a critique of modernity. I will read, with a specific focus on the second wave of Norwegian black metal, black metal's connivance with evil through Bataille's notion of authentic literature. Although two very different mediums – literature and music – Bataille's concept is applicable to a reading of black metal because of his invocation of evil and the Luciferian in his interpretation of authenticity. Bataille argues that authentic literature is necessarily diabolical because of the Nietzschean form of sovereignty that the author momentarily attains at the conception of the modern world – that is, in the wake of the death of God. The authenticity that Bataille and black metal seek is therefore bound up both with godlessness and the satanic.

A Historicist Novel

PMLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-397
Author(s):  
George Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
War Literature ◽  
Greatest Generation ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Crisis Of Meaning ◽  
History Books

The vortex of the twentieth century, the late 1930s and early to mid 1940s, provides an appropriate setting for Jennifer Egan's experiment in historical fiction. Many popular histories have glorified the bands of brothers and Rosie the Riveters of the so-called greatest generation. The best fiction and poetry of the 1940s offered a different, unflattering view. Journalists from that era—Martha Gellhorn, for one—said they needed fiction to get the history right (313). Literary treatments of the war focus on its incommunicability and on the crisis of meaning it inspired, but they have been vastly overshadowed by popular history books, documentaries, movies, and television shows that depend for their very production and distribution on an appeal to the fantasies that the contemporary war literature contradicts. In a decade when the idea of making America great again seems supercharged by notions of America when it was supposedly great, we can use some diving into the wreck.

scholarly journals Writing the Artist’s Gaze: Ethics and Ekphrasis in Early Twentieth Century Historical Fiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Dougall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Pat Barker

This article examines portrayals of visual artists in novels by Pat Barker and A.S. Byatt, focusing on artists’ appeal to writers, and the associated ethical and artistic challenges. It proposes that artist characters can offer creative ways of probing not only particular periods of history, but the creative process itself.

Historical Fiction, Academic History, and Civic Pageantry (c. 1850–c. 1960)

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-156
Author(s):  
J. Patrick Hornbeck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic History ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
Historical Fictions

Chapter 4, which covers the period from c. 1850 to c. 1960, begins with a genre of representation that came into its own in the nineteenth century: historical fiction. The chapter addresses some of the interpretive challenges that historical fictions present and offers new readings of two early stories about Wolsey, both set in his native Suffolk. The emergence of historical fiction occurred contemporaneously with far-reaching developments in academic historiography. With the publication of copious original documents from the Henrician period came new resources for the study of Wolsey. The chapter explores the work of such historians as James Anthony Froude and J. S. Brewer, alongside the Wolsey biographies of Mandell Creighton (1891), Ethelred Taunton (1902), A. F. Pollard (1929), and Hilaire Belloc (1930). It observes how Victorian historians were often zealous about policing the boundaries of their discipline. Finally, since it is from this period that we have the earliest evidence for the public commemoration of Wolsey, the chapter explores the ways in which the cardinal was remembered in early-twentieth-century civic pageants in Oxford and Ipswich, as well as on the anniversaries of his Oxford foundation, currently known as Christ Church.

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