Talk:Historical novel

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• Barry Lyndon, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, The Last Days of Pompeii, Gone with the Wind, Forever Amber, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Johnny Tremaine, Men of Iron, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Mutiny on the Bounty, Master and Commander and the whole of the Aubrey–Maturin series, now reckoned among the very best historical novels, for depth, chatacterization and accuracy, ever written : mention the outstanding examples, then deal with the industry that churns this stuff out.
• Bodice-ripper is a well-defined sub-genre, which sets steamy soft-core in a historical setting. Compare Romance to Novel. Georgette Heyer.
• Historical Drama by dramatists like Friedrich Schiller underlies most of Romantic opera. Modern historical drama includes Cyrano de Bergerac, The Devil's Advocate, A Man for All Seasons, The Lion in Winter, Amadeus.
• that'll start y'all off... Wetman 00:50, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Why not put this in the article? After italicizing the titles, of course. Ortolan88 00:56, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Why are there examples of "living historical novelists" included in the article in the first place? There is already a link for that (List of historical novelists or List of historical novels); it seems like a list of favourites to me. That info can be moved to the list page but shouldn't be included on the main page. Stoa 18:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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It seems to me that this page is a bit confused, it would perhaps be better to distinguish between a historical novel on one hand, such as War and Peace, from the wider historical fiction genre - such as Braveheart. In usage, 'Novel' is exclusively reserved for books, while 'historical fiction' could be a film or a play or whatever. Zeth

[edit] All historical fiction is in novel-form?

Historical fiction redirects here to historical novel. Is that accurate? Can the term "historical fiction" only be applied to novels? I really don't think do. -Captain Crawdad 06:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)