1. Historical metaphors on the postmodern palette -- 2. Nation-building and the need for authenticity : Per Anders Fogelström's Stockholm series -- 3. Playing with historical conventions : P.C. Jersild's Return of the geniuses -- 4. Imagining a place in the past : gender and the historical novel -- 5. History, national identity, and race : Ola Larsmo's The maroon mountain -- 6. The enlightenment and postcolonialism : Tournier's Friday, Delblanc's Speranza, and Unsworth's Sacred hunger -- 7. Defending the enlightenment : P.O. Enquist's The magnetist's fifth winter and The royal physician's visit -- 8. Digging up the past : the case of Charles XII.
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Historical novel, transnationalism, and the postmodern era.