historical fiction en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Fiction based on real historical events, but in which the characters are not real, and the minor events may not be realistic.
For some, historical fiction should be read as a type of history, for others, a type of fiction. Only gradually did a third term develop that synthesised the two: historical fiction needed to be read as historical fiction, as its own distinct genre that combined features of the novel with features of historical works.
2013, Kate Mitchell, Nicola Parsons, editors, Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past, Springer, →ISBN, page 21:
Relateds
metahistorical romance · real person fiction · historiographic metafiction
Translations (4)
cmn 史同文 (Translations) · pl fantastyka historyczna (Translations) · cmn 歷史同人文 /历史同人文 (Translations) · cmn 歷史小說 /历史小说 (Translations)