Table of Contents: “…The witch, the Puritan and the prophet: historical novels and seventeenth-century history / Katharine Hodgkin -- History as story in Angela Carter's American Ghosts and Old World Wonders / Sarah Gamble -- Falling off the edge of the world: history and genders in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic / Sherry Booth -- Time, space and (Her) story in the fiction of Eva Figes / Julia Tofantsuk -- From Demidenko to Darville: behind the scenes of a literary carnival / Rachel Morley -- Historicizing witchcraft throughout the ages: Joanna Baillie and Caryl Churchill / Christine A. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Hoffman -- The politics of gender equality in Turkey / Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall -- Between a rock and a hard place : the "Arab Spring," women, and lessons from Iran / Haideh Moghissi -- Media and cultural expressions -- State-sponsored media, cultural production, and information wars : the case of Iran / Niki Akhavan -- The power of corruption and the corruption of power : the Arabic historical novel in Morocco (and elsewhere) / Roger Allen -- From Sayed Darwish to MC Sadat : sonic cartographies of the Egyptian uprising / Ted Swedenburg.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Part I : Life and after life -- The life of Dickens 1 : before Ellen Ternan / John Bowen -- The life of Dickens 2 : after Ellen Ternan / John Bowen -- Dickens's lives / Michael Slater -- Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations / Anne Humpherys -- Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press / John Drew -- The European context / Michael Hollington -- Major twentieth-century critical responses / Toru Sasaki -- Modern stage adaptations / Tony Williams -- Modern screen adaptations / Toru Sasaki -- The heritage industry / Juliet John -- Neo-Victorian Dickens / Cora Kaplan -- Part II : Social and cultural contexts -- Popular culture / Paul Schlicke -- The rise of celebrity culture / Joss Marsh -- The newspaper and periodical market / John Drew -- Authorship and the professional writer / Florian Schweizer -- The theatre / Marty Gould -- Melodrama / Juliet John -- The Bildungsroman / Florian Schweizer -- Visual culture / Kate Flint -- The historical novel / Ian Duncan -- The illustrated novel / Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge -- Christmas / Sally Ledger -- Childhood / Holly Furneaux -- Work / Martin Danahay -- Europe / Ruth Livesey -- The Victorians and America / Ella Dzelzainis -- Educating the Victorians / Patrick Brantlinger -- London / anne Humpherys -- Politics / Michael Sanders -- Political economy / Paul Young -- The aristocracy / Andrew Sanders -- The middle classes / Priti Joshi -- Urban migration and mobility / Josephine McDonagh -- Financial markets and the banking system / Francis O'Gorman -- Empires and colonies / Grace Moore -- Race / Priti Joshi -- Crime / Anne Schwan -- The law / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Religion / Emma Mason -- Science / James Mussell -- Transport / Jonathan H. …”

Table of Contents: “…archaeology under challenge / Caroline Steele -- Archaeology and nationalism in the Holy Land / Adel Yahya -- Archaeology goes to war at the newstand / Susan Pollock -- The past as fact or fiction from historical novels to novel histories / Reinhard Bernbeck -- Reassessing evolutionary "firsts" / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock -- Bleeding or breeding : Neandertals vs. early modern humans in the middle Paleolithic Levant / John Shea -- Lumps of clay and pieces of stone : ambiguity, bodies, and identity as portrayed in neolithic figurines / Ian Kuijt and Meredith Chesson -- The state : the process of state formation as seen from Mesopotamia / Jean-Daniel Forest -- Archaeology, Bible, and the history of the Levant in the Iron Age / Israel Finkelstein -- Imperialism / Mario Liverani -- Constructing arguments, understanding perceptions / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock -- Ethnoarchaeology, analogy, and ancient society / Marc Verhoeven -- The ancient Sumerians in the tides of time / Petr Charvát -- Reliquaries on the landscape : mounds as matrices of human cognition / Sharon Steadman -- Archaeology and texts in the ancient Near East / Paul Zimansky -- Representations, reality, and ideology / Jennifer Ross.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Theorising displacement, elimination and replacement of indigenous people: an introduction to decolonising land issues / Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira & Nelson Mlambo -- Land dispossession and the genesis of crises in Zimbabwe: implications for sustainable livelihoods and people-centred development as depicted in selected Zimbabwean fictional narratives / Ruby Magosvongwe -- 'Mapfuma angu achamuka' (My bones will rise again): spirituality, history, memory and ancestry in land ownership 'Debates' in Zimbabwe / Collen Sabao -- Pegging out claims in space and place: the theme of land redistribution in the music of Simon Chimbetu / Charles Pfukwa -- Of mothers, umbilical cords and tongues: land ownership, language and identity in Chirikure Chirikure's Rukuvhute / Angeline Mavis Madongonda & Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga -- Discourse of colonial displacement: the impetus of selected historical novels / Colleta Kandemiri & Nelson Mlambo -- Special marginalisation: (Re)reading Musaemura Zimunya's gendered space and place in Country Dawns and City Lights / Angeline Mavis Madongonda -- The San people of Zimbabwe: decades after land dispossession / Shuvai Chingwe -- Interrogation of the nexus between land restitution and poverty alleviation in contemparary Zimbabwe / Blessing Makunike -- The gendered dispossession of land in colonial Rhodesia: an analysis of Thomson Kumbirai Tsodzo's Pafunge and Patrick Chakaipa's Dzasukwa Mwana-Asina-Hembe / Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga -- Fictionalising resistance to land repossession: political economies of displacement and the imagination of a better Zimbabwe / Nelson Mlambo & Jairos Kangira.…”
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Table of Contents: “…--History on the Hustings: Bulwer-Lytton's historical novels of politics, by C. Dahl.--Thackeray, a novelist by accident, by J.Y.T. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6 Thatcherism, Domesticity and the Production of Homonormative Spaces in The Line of Beauty -- Introduction -- Tradition, Ideology, and the Jamesian Narrator -- The Public Stage of Domesticity -- AIDS, Homophobia, and the Politics of Urban Privatization -- Chapter 7 Out of the Metropolis -- Introduction -- Historiography and Metafictionality -- Homosexuality, Historiography, and the Literary Canon -- Homonormativity, Respectability and the Continuum of Misogyny and Sexism -- Chapter 8 London and the Spatialization of Queer Histories -- The Historical Novel and Historiographic Metafiction…”
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Table of Contents: “…Romance and Commerce: Imagining Global Amsterdam in the Contemporary Historical Novel / Erinc Salor -- 6. Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel / Marco de Waard -- pt. …”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- Part III PROBING AUTHORITY WITH THE WRITTEN WORD -- 10 'And I Saw No Reason to Chronicle My Life': Tensions of Nationalist Modernity in the Memoirs of Fathallah Pasha Barakat; -- 11 My Sister Esther: Reflections on Judaism, Ottomanism and Empire in the Works of Farah Antun; -- 12 Romances of History: Jurji Zaydan and the Rise of the Historical Novel; -- 13 Before Qasim Amin: Writing Women's History in 1890s Egypt; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Peterson -- Postcolonial anxiety in classic U.S. literature / Laurence Buell -- Romancing the empire : the embodiment of American masculinity in the popular historical novel of 1890s / Amy Kaplan -- Neither fish, flesh, nor fowl : race and region in the writings of Charles W. …”
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