Historical novel

come to learn of the involvement and eventually, the fate of Laskin’s protagonists. Throughout this journey, we come to understand the irony of these men serving a country that sometimes made them feel like unwanted strangers. The second half of the novel does more than just detail the position each immigrant experiences in the Great War, it assists in helping the audience to see each solider as a dedicated hero in a country that did not welcome them. The loyalty Laskin details that each…

history in an effort to entertain his readers (Rosenblum). He then published his second novel, The Spy which was immensely popular and evolved into three editions, adapted for the New York stage and translated into French. The novel received equal criticism and gained him the title of “the first who deserved the appellation of a distinguished American novel writer” (Rosenblum). The next novel…

Ysabel is a fantasy fiction novel written by the popular Canadian author, Guy Gavriel Kay. This novel takes place south of France where fifteen-year-old Ned Marriner encounters influencial people and supernatural forces. Ned is in France with his father, Edward Marriner, a well known photographer who is in the midst of taking photos for a recently developing book that is to come out next Christmas called “Edward Marriner: Images of Provence, accompanying a text by Oliver Lee.” (31) His mother,…

Award-winning novel by Indian-Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh. He is no doubt one of the leaders of the global league, and no one would today dare categorise him as an ‘Indo-Anglian novelist’. We may say that Ghosh, in the tradition of Rushdie, is one of the key figures to have created that global league which every Indian writer would today aspire to join. In 1988, Amitav Ghosh published his second novel, titled as The Shadow Lines. Ghosh replaces the magic-realist features and incidents of his…

3.3.1 Hermeneutics of Suspicion: The Role of Genealogy in Historical Sense of Midnight’s Children: The historical sense in the novel invokes the idea of Foucault’s ‘genealogical’ history. Genealogy is the study of ‘family history’ which often possess the desire to historically ‘situate’ one's family in the larger historical picture. In the poststructuralist discourse of Foucault and other postmodern theorists, it has assumed a special significance owing to the fact that it eschews history of its…

of Ivanhoe, a young knight under King Richard the Lionheart, strives to be with his lover, Lady Rowena. Their discouraged relationship forms amidst the tense, and very real, rivalries between the Normans and Saxons, and the Christians and Jews. The novel describes the years after the Third Crusade in the perspective of many contrasting characters, creating an atmosphere of balanced sympathy and curiosity for the reader. Sir Walter Scott ensured that the lives of people from different backgrounds…

The Way to Rainy Mountain is a novel by Scott Momaday that captures the history of journey and migration of Kiowa people. He used 3 different voices to present the genesis of the Kiowa tribe. “The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second voice is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice.” (4) “The Closing In” is the final chapter in the book and in my opinion uses the 3…

puzzling is the reign of King Richard III and the accusation against him of the murder of his two nephews, the sons of his brother, Edward IV. Josephine Tey’s 1951 novel, Daughter of Time, presents the past as a mystery to be solved. She delves into this matter and portrays the life of King Richard III in a new light. The timeframe of the novel is the life of King Richard III from the time his father ruled until his own death in the Battle of Bosworth. Through much discussion, Tey comes to the…

Chevalier’s novel, Girl With a Pearl Earring, has very little basis in Vermeer’s masterpiece other than the same painter. Chevalier’s own internalized misogyny is evident in her use of archetypal female characters throughout this book, as well as her other works. Her personal bias influences the book so deeply, she refutes all historical fact in favor of rewriting the novels of the eighteenth century. Her complete lack of understanding of historical or artistic context and fact make her novel…

equating her to the old highland traditions. Time is malleable and something Waverley moves backwards and forwards through; this equates with the narrator of the novel and Scott himself, describing class issues and political rebellions and fights for independence in 1745 against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Sir Walter Scott started the novel in 1805 only to lay it aside and resume writing it in 1810 followed by another gap before its conclusion and publication in 1814. The social and…