Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed

Ina Bergmann is associate professor of American studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. She is the author of one monograph, And Then the Child Becomes a Woman: Weibliche Initiation in der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte 1865-1970 (2003); the (co)editor of nine volumes of essays and special sections of journals, among them Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing (2015), Cultures of Solitude: Loneliness – Limitation – Liberation (2017), and Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2018); and a frequent contributor to peer-reviewed journals and international book projects. She has held fellowhips with the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin, and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, USA.

• 1. History, Fiction, and the USAThe New American Historical FictionA Brief History of the Historical NovelNineteenth-Century Historical Romance as National LiteratureThe Fact/Fiction DichotomyMaster Narrative vs. Micro NarrativeAcademic History vs. Pop HistoryThe Illusion of VeracityNostalgia, Escapism, or Historical Lesson?The Appeal of the Nineteenth CenturyHistorical Fiction, Memory, and Genre The Neoconservative, the Liberal, the Identitarian, and the PostmodernIs All New Historical Fiction Historiographic Metafiction?How Neo-Victorian is It?Revis(it)ing the Past2. Historical Crime FictionTheoretical ConceptionsCaleb Carr's The Alienist (1994)Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club (2003)Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City (2003)3. Multi-time-level Historical FictionTheoretical GroundworkValerie Martin's The Great Divorce (1994)Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days (2005)David Ebershoff's The 19th Wife (2008)4. Historical BiofictionTheoretical FoundationsLauren Belfer's City of Light (1999)Diane Glancy's Stone Heart (2003)John May's Poe & Fanny (2004)5. Reanimated ClassicsTheoretical FrameworkChristopher Bigsby's Hester (1994)Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone (2001)Geraldine Brooks's March (2005)6. Revis(it)ing History and FictionWorks CitedIndex