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"This full-fledged first novel points, first, to the author's obvious understanding of the need for fluid, rather than obtrusive, use of history in fiction. It points, second, to the adjustments in social attitudes that European immigrants made when settling in America and settling into less-formal American customs.
The earliest known use of the adjective obtrusive is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for obtrusive is from 1652, in the writing of Thomas Urquhart, author and translator. obtrusive is a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin obtrūs-, obtrūdere, ‑ive suffix. See etymology.
Jun 1, 2022 · Many scholars trace the origins of the historical novel, prior to its arrival in England, to seventeenth-century France through the publications of César de Saint-Réal’s Don Carlos (1672), his essay De l'usage de l'histoire (1671), as well as Madame de La Fayette’s La Princesse de Clèves (1678).
Dec 24, 2010 · The term “historiographic metafiction” was coined by Linda Hutcheon in her essay “Beginning to Theorize the Postmodern” in 1987 and then further developed in her seminal study A Poetics of Postmodernism (1988) to describe “those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim ...
Jul 2, 2020 · Even more obviously in line with middle-class Puritan ethics is the work of Samuel Richardson (1689- 1761), whose epistolary novels of personality, sensibility, and moral conflict present the first multidimensional characters in English prose fiction.
5 days ago · Historical novel, a novel that has as its setting a period of history and that attempts to convey the spirit, manners, and social conditions of a past age with realistic detail and fidelity (which is in some cases only apparent fidelity) to historical fact.
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Nov 13, 2020 · Historical theory and criticism embraces not only the theory and practice of literary historiographical representation but also other types of criticism that, often without acknowledgment, presuppose a historical ground or adopt historical methods in an ad hoc fashion.
