Free New Publication: Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction

Edited by Samantha J. Rayner and Kim Wilkins, and published by UCL Press, Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction was published today. It's available free for download at

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/130865

Here's a list of the essays it contains:

1. ‘Where History says little, Fiction may say much’ (Anna Barbauld): the historical novel in women’s hands in the mid-twentieth century - Kathryn Sutherland 

 
2. The not so silly ass: Freddy Standen, his fictional contemporaries and alternative masculinity - Geraldine Perriam 

 
3. Judith Taverner as dandy-in-training in Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck - Laura George

4. Pride and prejudice: metafiction and the value of historical romance in Georgette Heyer - Kim Sherwood

 
5. Loving and giving: realism, emotional hypocrisy, and generosity in A Civil Contract - Jennifer Clement

 
6. Georgette Heyer and redefining the Gothic romance - Holly Hirst
 

7. Heyer . . . in Space! The Influence of Georgette Heyer on science fiction - Kathleen Jennings 
 

8. All’s Well That Ends Well: Shakespearean Echoes in Heyer’s Regency novels - Lisa Hopkins
 

9. Georgette Heyer, Wellington’s Army and the First World War - Vanda Wilcox
 

10. Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel - Tom Zille 
 

11. A reluctant movie? The Reluctant Widow on screen - Lucie Bea Dutton
 

12. Georgette Heyer – guilty pleasures - Amy Street
 

13. Data science: Georgette Heyer’s historical novels and her readers - Helen Davidge