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| Title: | Speaking in the Past Tense
: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction |
| Author: | Herb Wyile |
| ISBN: | 0889205116 : 9780889205116 |
| Illustrations: | 40 b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 327 |
| Weight: | .504 Kg. |
| Published: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press - October 2006 |
| List Price: | 15.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general: Canada |
Interviews with eleven authors, whose novels are based on events in Canadian history, that take the reader behind the writers' motives for writing about history, their research, differences in approach, and challenges. They also talk about the state of historical fiction in Canada, and what stories didn't make it into their novels.
Introduction; Interviews -- Making History; Walking Where His Feet Can Walk; Confessions of a Historical Geographer; An Afterlife Endlessly Revised; "We Have to Recover Their Bodies"; Ghosts Are Our Allies; History "from the Workingman's End of the Telescope"; Pushing Out the Poison; In the Lair of the Minotaur; The Iceman Cometh Across; The Living Haunt the Dead.
