Wilson, L.G. 2015. Reality Effects: The Historical Novel and the Crisis of Fictionality in the First Decade of the Twenty-first Century. in: Bentley, N., Hubble, N. and Wilson, L.G. (ed.) The 2000s: a decade of contemporary British fiction London Bloomsbury. pp. 145-171
| Chapter title | Reality Effects: The Historical Novel and the Crisis of Fictionality in the First Decade of the Twenty-first Century |
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| Authors | Wilson, L.G. |
| Editors | Bentley, N., Hubble, N. and Wilson, L.G. |
| Abstract | This chapter looks at the assumptions made about the 'fictionality' of prose fiction implicit in the contemporary historical novel. In particular it argues that the recent historical novel has developed a set of 'reality effects' which appear to look back to modernist writing, but in fact work to secure a disguised referentiality in the face of a loss of faith in the fictional. |
| Keywords | contemporary novel, historical novel, reality effects, modernism |
| Book title | The 2000s: a decade of contemporary British fiction |
| Page range | 145-171 |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 22 Oct 2015 |
| Place of publication | London |
| Series | The Decades Series: British Fiction |
| ISBN | 9781441112156 |
| 9781350005426 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474217217.ch-005 |