Writing the Middle Ages: the boundaries of historical fiction

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Writing the Middle Ages: the boundaries of historical fiction

This PhD thesis consists of two parts: my novel, Flight; and a critical commentary on the process of writing it and its context within the wider genre of historical fiction. The novel is notionally set in eleventh-century England, at Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire. It is inspired by and loosely ba...

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Main Author:	Aitcheson, James
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English English
Published:	2021
Subjects:	creative writing historical fiction Middle Ages prose fiction
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/66986/

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