metahistorical romance
English
Etymology
Coined by Amy J. Elias in 2001.
Noun
metahistorical romance (countable and uncountable, plural metahistorical romances)
- (literature) 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, 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.
Further reading
metahistorical romance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia