@article{1445201,
      recid = {1445201},
      author = {King, Jeannette,},
      title = {Adventurous women in contemporary American historical  fiction : girls' own stories /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 164 pages)},
      abstract = {This book brings together for the first time nine  groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United  States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on  female adventurers. These novels introduce the neglected  women of history, real and imagined, who accompanied their  menfolk to the New World, and enabled its settlement or  colonisation. Familiar novelists include Isabel Allende,  Audrey Thomas and Jane Smiley, but this book also  introduces less familiar writers who have produced richly  textured and densely historical novels. In addition to  putting women back into history, these writers engage with  the literature of the past, including the American canon of  male fiction which dominated literary history before the  intervention of feminist scholars. The book begins with an  introduction to the history of historical fiction and  provides a theoretical, historical and geographical context  for the novels themselves. Jeannette King is Professor  Emerita of English at the University of Aberdeen, UK.  Publications include: Discourses of Ageing in Fiction and  Feminism (2012), The Victorian Woman Question in  Contemporary Feminist Fiction (2005), Women and the Word:  Contemporary Women Novelists and the Bible (2000) , and  Tragedy in the Victorian Novel: Theory and Practice in the  Novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Henry James (1978)  .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1445201},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94126-0},
}