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The contemporary British historical novel: representation, nation, empire (2009)
Book
Boccardi, M. (2009). The contemporary British historical novel: representation, nation, empire. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave

This is the first full-length study of a genre that has had increasing critical attention and popular appeal at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book combines a contextual and theoretical framework for the success of historical fiction in Br... Read More about The contemporary British historical novel: representation, nation, empire.

Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur (2009)
Book Chapter
Boccardi, M. (2009). Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur. In C. Patey, & L. Scuriatti (Eds.), The Exhibit in the Text: The Museological Practices of Literature (241-255). Bern: Peter Lang

The essay examines how collecting and textual accumulation provided the British Empire with a range of symbolic practices to extert indirect control over the colonised territory. The chapter centres on J.G. Farrell's satire of imperial ideology in hi... Read More about Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur.