Reread a History: Another Narration from the Biography of Aga Mohammad Khan Qajar A Critique on the Book "Iran's History in the Qajar Period: The Aga Mohammad Khan Era" by Alireza Mollaiy Tavany

“…There has been much research and historical novels written about him so far. Generally, bloody, cruel, and vengeful figures have been drawn in both the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic-era historiography discourse and independent research. …”
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Shams et Toghrā. figures romanesques de l'Iran mongol by Christophe Balaÿ

“…In this article, the author tries to show how, through the historical novel genre which appears in Iran at the beginning of the 20th century, Mohammad Bâqer Khosravi presents a new romance approach of the Iranian history.…”
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Memory, Identity and Otherness in Rhea Galanaki’s Novel "The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: Spina Nel Cuore" by Neli Popova

“…Rhea Galanaki is widely regarded not only as a prominent contemporary Greek author but also as a key figure in the revival of the Greek historical novel, alongside writers such as Maro Douka, Alexis Panselinos, and Nikos Themelis. …”
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Horizontes de la narrativa colombiana de las últimas décadas en el ámbito latinoamericano by Carmen Alemany Bay

“…We analyze the main themes beginning with narrative which is based on reality and which diversifies into different genres: urban realism, testimony, detective stories and new historic novels. After the literary space of reality we deal with the supernatural space through an analysis of the most outstanding manifestations of magic realism. …”
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Actualité du roman archéologique by Philippe Dufour

“…Some scholars like Anne Green have shown that Flaubert in his historical novel, Salammbô, frequently alludes to contemporary history in spite of the obvious difference between the Carthaginian civilization and the modern world. …”
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Geschichte im Roman / Roman in der Geschichte by Klaus-Detlef Müller

“…In so doing, a distinct, autoreferential type of historical novel comes into being. Based on narratological means and their fictional self–reflection, this new type is suitable to generate a ‘plausible’ explanation for the events whose absurdity it exposes.…”
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La matière féerique dans Salammbô by Gesine Hindemith

“…This article approaches Flaubert’s historical novel Salammbô from the perspective of fantasy. …”
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Art et histoire : l’excès dans Demos de George Gissing by Christine Huguet

“…The artist in quest for adequate modes of representation of excess not infrequently turns his hand to the historical novel, a genre overtly legitimising the imagination. …”
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L’apport de Lorenza Maranini dans le domaine des études flaubertiennes by Giorgetto Giorgi

“…In the second one she argues – and rejects – György Lukàcs’ famous theory developed in The Historical Novel (partially taken up by Jean-Paul Sartre in France and by Alberto Cento in Italy) according to which Flaubert ultimately supported reactionary theories in his Parisian novel.…”
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De l’histoire à la fiction : la réception des Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

“…This paper on the reception of the Memoirs argues that the reasons for the nineteenth-century dehistoricization and fictionalization of the Memoirs lie in the generic hybridity of the work as well as in the insistent invitation to readers to read the Memoirs as a historical novel.…”
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Le triomphe de l’histoire et la ré-invention de la mémoire dans la fiction romanesque de Jean Divassa Nyama by Noël-Bertrand Boundzanga

“…By returning to the colonial history, the historical novel establishes another memory, a living memory capable of giving to the Gabonese people the meaning of their lives. …”
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Contribution of Federal Centre for Animal Health to Rosselkhoznadzor’s international mandate delivery by V. V. Lavrovsky

“…The grounds for the re-subordination of the Federal Centre for Animal Health to the Rosselkhoznadzor, historically novel executive authority in Russia, included high international prestige of the Centre and nationally and internationally acknowledged qualification of its employees in the field of contagious animal diseases.…”
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Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana... by Claire Laguian

“…There is no access to historical sources that would give voice to the native Canarian peoples, and due to these ghosts of the past and to the current search for a Guanche identity, literature faces this challenge of taking hold of the stories of slavery. The historical novel Epistolario de un nativo (2019) by Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana is one of the examples of what a contemporary rewriting of the spectral colonial past can mean with its historical work, its counter-discourse in front of the official story of the Spanish State, its mythification and its contradictions, without forgetting its fictional stratagems and its positioning from a present that draws inspiration from the political struggles of the minorities.…”
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Trauma, Romance, and the Diasporic Memory Keepers of the Holodomor in Erin Litteken’s The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Mateusz Świetlicki

“…A few months after its publication in North America, Erin Litteken’s bestselling historical novel The Memory Keeper of Kyiv (2022) has already been translated into fourteen languages. …”
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Le Traité des délits de Joseph-Pierre Chassan : une nouvelle source pour L’Éducation sentimentale  by Biagio Magaudda

“…However, the analysis of the notes taken by Flaubert on Chassan's work and the rereading of the writer's historical novel highlight common aspects that deserve to be deepened: we will see that the Traité des délits, a little-known work, plays a crucial role in the elaboration of a speech by Frédéric in L'Éducation sentimentale and is now added to the long list of works consulted by the writer for the preparation of his novel.…”
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„Occisio Gregorii Vodae…”, între document şi prelucrare literară by Ileana Mihăilă

“…Concerning its historical basis, it is shown that, following comparison to contemporary accounts of the death of Grigore III, the prince of Moldavia, the version from Occisio Gregorii has a very similar source to that of Mihail Kogalniceanu’s historical novel, Trii zile din istoria Moldaviei (1844).…”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…By intentionally putting aside the main issues of the novel, the historic war of Carthage, the mythic battle between Tanit and Moloch, great History and mythology, battles and massacres, the focus is on the sentimental adventure, which, as the author well knows, is a must in a historic novel.  The account of Hamilcar’s daughter’s social milieu, the analysis of her psyche, her desires, dreams and beliefs, shed light on her life as a woman.  …”
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Les grandes guerres du XXe siècle dans No pasarán le jeu de Christian Lehmann : écrire et réécrire l’histoire pour les adolescents, du roman à la bande dessinée by Eléonore Hamaide-Jager

“…The trilogy goes beyond the literary characteristics of the young adult historical novel by bringing the characters to face history and its effects on the present period, which is the same as the readers’. …”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Among the most prominent were Adébáyọ Fálétí whose ̀ Ọmọ Olókùn Ẹṣin (1969) is a historical novel dealing with a revolt against the overlordship of Ọyọ, and Ọládèjọ Òkédìjí, author of two brilliantly innovative crime thrillers (Àjà ló lẹrù, 1969, and Àgbàlagbà Akàn, 1971), as well as a more somber tragic novel of the destruction of a young boy who is relentlessly drawn into a life of crime in the underworld of Ifẹ (Atótó Arére, 1981). …”
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