How
much of what historical novels give readers is in any way related to history?
Allowing for inevitable anachronisms and so forth, don’t historical novels
really present the values and attitudes of the times in which they are written,
rather than the values and attitudes of the times they purport to represent?
And yet don’t historical novels have a greater influence on the way people see
the past than sober history books do?
These
questions have interested me for years. For a preliminary discussion of some of
my conclusions, I cordially invite you to the following presentation.
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