What is the main purpose of historical fiction?

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Prag Rao · Answer 1 · 2021-06-03T20:18:05+0000

The historical novelist exposes the reader to the inner lives of people across time and place, and in doing so illuminates history's untold stories, allowing the reader to experience a more complex truth. As Hilary Mantel said it best, “Historical fiction comes out of greed for experience.

Div · Answer 2 · 2021-06-08T04:55:08+0000

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Historical fiction allows us to “understand the extremes of human behavior.” The novel can explore “various ways of facing, understanding and living with the horrific events in the past.” Historical fiction helps us retain the past.

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