metahistorical romance

English

Etymology

Coined by Amy J. Elias in 2001.

Noun

metahistorical romance (countable and uncountable, plural metahistorical romances)

1. 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^[1], 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