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The 117 pages that link to Historical fiction, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical novelNarrower topic: The broader category includes historical novels as well as historical fiction in other forms.

• MemoirCompared with: Unlike memoir, historical fiction may invent events and characters while drawing on the past.

• Crime fictionNarrower topic: Crime stories can adopt historical settings without becoming defined by them.

• Historical filmNarrower topic: Historical films often adapt this broader mode across screen genres.

• Walter ScottNarrower topic: Scott helped establish historical settings as engines of character, conflict, and social change.

• BiographyCompared with: Invented scenes and characters separate it from nonfiction biography.

• LegendCompared with: Historical fiction openly presents invented storytelling rather than inherited communal tradition.

• Historical accuracyCompared with: Its narrative liberties differ from the evidentiary obligations of historical accounts.

• Historical narrativeCompared with: Historical fiction may use narrative techniques while making claims differently from historical accounts.

• Historical romanceRelated: Its period setting draws on the conventions of historical fiction.

• The SiegeNarrower topic: The novel combines a historical conflict with invented scenes and perspectives.

• Counterfactual historyCompared with: Unlike historical fiction, counterfactual history aims to reason about causal claims.

• MedievalismRelated: Medievalism can inform historical fiction, but it also includes non-narrative uses of medieval imagery.

• Historical dramaNarrower topic: Historical drama belongs to this broader tradition, though it is defined by dramatic form.

• Icelandic sagasCompared with: Modern historical fiction foregrounds invented narrative, while saga accounts often mix history, inherited tradition, and literary construction.

• The UntouchablesNarrower topic: The show’s dramatic reconstruction illustrates how historical fiction reshapes real events for entertainment.

• Zuo ZhuanCompared with: The Zuo Zhuan narrates dramatic episodes, but it is treated as a historical source rather than fiction.

• Family sagaNarrower topic: A family saga frequently uses historical change as the pressure that reshapes private lives.

• Historical legendCompared with: Historical fiction openly uses invention; legends circulate as inherited accounts of the past.

• ReenactmentCompared with: It can depict past events without claiming to stage a reconstruction of what occurred.

• Alternate historyRelated: Both forms use the past as narrative material, but only alternate history changes its events.

• HistoryCompared with: It evokes the past through invention, unlike historical scholarship’s evidence-based claims.

• Political allegoryCompared with: Historical fiction depicts politics within its setting; allegory makes story elements stand for political meanings.

• Historical biographyCompared with: It may imagine private scenes that a historical biography must leave uncertain without evidence.

• The CrucibleNarrower topic: The play adapts historical people and events while reshaping details for dramatic purposes.

• Titanic (1997 film)Narrower topic: The film places its fictional romance within a documented maritime disaster.

• Epic of SundiataCompared with: The epic’s performance tradition and historical claims differ from modern authored fiction.

• JidaigekiNarrower topic: Jidaigeki is a national dramatic tradition within the broader category of historical fiction.

• Literary biographyCompared with: It can dramatize a writer’s life, but invented scenes distinguish it from documented biography.

• The House of the SpiritsNarrower topic: Its fictional country evokes Chilean history and political conflict.

• Bonnie and ClydeCompared with: Later portrayals often dramatize events beyond what the historical record establishes.

• Mori ŌgaiRelated: Ōgai’s later stories use historical settings to test questions of duty and judgment.

• Western fictionNarrower topic: Western fiction overlaps with historical fiction but is defined more narrowly by its regional traditions and conventions.

• Popular historyCompared with: Unlike popular history, it may invent characters and events to build its narrative.

• PseudohistoryCompared with: Unlike pseudohistory, it presents invention as fiction rather than as reliable factual history.

• Southern literatureNarrower topic: Southern novels often recast slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through invented lives.

• Alex HaleyRelated: Roots presents a family saga across historical periods, though its factual claims became disputed.

• Chandragupta IICompared with: Later Vikramaditya stories blur historical memory with imaginative accounts of Chandragupta II's age.

• Kunta KinteRelated: Kunta’s story blends fictional characterization with claims about family history and historical setting.

• Robert E. HowardRelated: Howard also wrote historical adventure stories beyond his invented fantasy worlds.

• Don DeLilloRelated: Libra and Underworld recast documented history through invented characters and scenes.

• Kazuo IshiguroNarrower topic: Several Ishiguro novels use the past to examine how individuals reinterpret responsibility.

• Octavia E. ButlerCompared with: Kindred combines speculative time travel with detailed engagement with American slavery.

• The Last SamuraiNarrower topic: The film uses invented characters and altered events within a recognizable Meiji-era setting.

• Alan MooreNarrower topic: From Hell uses documented Victorian settings while openly interpreting disputed events.

• Book of JudithRelated: Judith combines recognizable imperial names with a chronology that does not fit historical records.

• Ip ManNarrower topic: Ip Man films use this form rather than presenting a strict biography.

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayNarrower topic: The novel combines fictional lives with recognizable events and institutions of the twentieth century.

• The Bridge on the River KwaiNarrower topic: The film’s fictional characters and bridge have often been mistaken for historical fact.

• Alessandro ManzoniRelated: Manzoni combines documented episodes with invented protagonists in The Betrothed.