Historical Fiction: Graduate Masterclass
Historical Fiction
a Graduate Student Masterclass with Dr Clara Tuite, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
| School of Cultural Inquiry Conference Room, Level 1, A.D. Hope Building (14) |
In this masterclass on historical fiction, we will discuss how literature and history intersect, why historical fiction has been such a popular genre from the Romantic period to the contemporary moment, as well as the critical debates it has generated. Together with examples of historical fiction by Maria Edgeworth and Kate Grenville, we will focus our discussion on the following critical materials:
Mark McKenna, “Writing the Past,” Best Australian Essays 2006, ed. Drusilla Modjeska (Collingwood: Black Inc., 2006)
W.G. Sebald, “An Attempt at Restitution,” Campo Santo, trans. Anthea Bell (New York: Random House, 2005)
Clara Tuite, “Maria Edgeworth’s Deja-Voodoo: Interior Decoration, Retroactivity, and Colonial Allegory in The Absentee,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 20: 3 (Spring 2008).
To enrol in this masterclass please contact Dr Ned Curthoys
