Sir Walter Scott has long been acknowledged as the first writer of historical fiction, and when he chose Scotland as a setting, he generally produced his best work. He introduced this approach in his first novel, Waverley (1814), when he… Read More ›
William Makepeace Thackeray achieved his goal of making history familiar to his readers in The History of Henry Esmond. He established a model for historical fiction, using true occurrences as the basis of his novel in a way never done… Read More ›
American literary Postmodernism flourished in the period after World War II, though most critics place its inception in the late fifties and early sixties. It was a reaction to the times: the end of World War II, Hiroshima and the… Read More ›
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