Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other) by Mark C. Carnes

Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other)

Mark C. Carnes

352 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction essays history challenging informative slow-paced
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Historical fiction is a contradiction in terms. History is what happened; fiction, what did not. Yet great novelists have often disregarded this logical difficulty, taking up the tools of the historian to explore the shadowy recesses of the past. ...

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