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sartorias

Historical Fiction

Dec 17, 2010 07:09

Madeleine Robins talks about the problem of historical attitudes and their clash with how we think now ( Read more... )

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kalimac December 17 2010, 15:50:01 UTC

This nicely summarizes part of the problem with that historical novel I keep complaining about but that nobody else sees anything wrong with.

anderyn December 17 2010, 15:54:03 UTC

And now I wanna know what novel it is! :-) PM me if you don't want to get into it in Sherwood's journal.

sartorias December 17 2010, 16:02:24 UTC

Oh, he and I have argued about this one for years--it's called FREEDOM AND NECESSITY, written by Emma Bull and Steven Brust. He hates it and I like it (for me it's such an AU that the shifts from history seem deliberate)

anderyn December 17 2010, 16:03:34 UTC

Hmmm. I've read it but I don't recall it. Now I have to see if I can unearth a copy and see what I think.

kalimac December 19 2010, 15:01:11 UTC

Whereas I do not believe in alternate universes that just happen to match up with the holes and errors in the authors' plotting and research.

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