metahistorical romance

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Coined by Amy J. Elias in 2001.

Noun[edit]

metahistorical romance (countable and uncountable, plural metahistorical romances)

  1. A type of postmodern historical fiction.
    Coordinate term: historiographic metafiction
    • 2010, Alun Munslow, The Future of History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 267:
      From Linda Hutcheon's work on historiographic metafiction to Amy Elias's study of the metahistorical romance, addressing the historical novel, for example, has become something of a minor industry outside conventional history.
    • 2017, Alison Shonkwiler, The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction‎[1], University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
      Through the “historiographic metafiction” or “metahistorical romance” of post-1960s fiction, critics have identified the self-reflexive quality of the new historical aesthetics.

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