Oscar and Lucinda (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Carey
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Historical novel
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Setting: England and Australia
- Principal Characters: Theophilus Hopkins, Oscar Hopkins, Hugh Stratton, Lucinda Leplastrier
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Gambling, Religion, Ministry or ministers, Christianity, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Clergy, Australia or Australians, Church or churches
- Locales: England, Australia
The historical novel has undergone a curious change of direction in the decades since World War II, a change that first came to widespread attention with the publication in 1969 of John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, a Victorian pastiche that simultaneously parodied the narrative conventions of nineteenth century fiction and experimented with what have since been termed postmodern, metafictional techniques. Since then, a number of similarly provocative historical novels have appeared: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Robert Coover's The Public...
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