July 24, 2020: Historical Fictions: Five More Novels

[Earlier this month, I began teaching my graduate American Historical Fiction: Practice and Theory class for the fifth time, this time entirely online. So this week I’ll briefly highlight (busy with teaching and all) a handful of exemplary historical fictions and related contexts. Share your own favorite historical fictions or authors for a boundary-blurring crowd-sourced weekend post, please!]

For the fifth post, quick hits on five more nominees for amazing American (or, in one case, Canadian—but I’m a hemispheric AmericanStudier, after all!) historical novels:

1)      E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel (1971)

2)      Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels (1974)

3)      David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident (1981)

4)      Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (1996)

5)      Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex (2002)

Crowd-sourced post this weekend,

Ben

PS. So one more time: what do you think? Other historical fictions or authors you’d highlight?