KnowraHistorical novelLinked fromLinked fromThe 88 pages that link to Historical novel, each with the reason it gives.All 88Broader topic 4Related 17Narrower topic 56Compared with 11Postmodern literatureCompared with: Postmodern historical fiction often disputes the genre’s appearance of presenting a coherent past.Historical romanceCompared with: Historical novels need not make a love relationship the central plot or provide romance's expected ending.Narrative nonfictionCompared with: It may closely follow documented history while inventing characters or events.Documentary literatureCompared with: Its invented scenes distinguish it from documentary writing’s grounding in documented events.Political fictionCompared with: Historical novels may include politics, but their defining focus is a past setting rather than political life.Romance (genre)Compared with: Historical novels can use romance conventions, but their defining focus is a represented past.Roman à clefCompared with: Historical fiction need not disguise specific contemporaries behind identifiable fictional counterparts.J. M. CoetzeeCompared with: Coetzee uses historical settings, but often unsettles conventional historical narration.Julian BarnesCompared with: Barnes uses historical settings but often foregrounds uncertainty about how the past can be known.Alan MooreheadCompared with: Moorehead dramatized the past through nonfiction rather than invented characters and plots.Seiichi MorimuraCompared with: His fictional crime writing differs from his documentary accounts of wartime history.