Elisabeth Wesseling

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabeth Wesseling is involved.

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Writing History as a Prophet: Postmodernist innovations of the historical novel

Elisabeth Wesseling

This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past.Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 26] 1991. ix, 218 pp.

Articles

Wesseling, Elisabeth 2023 Chapter 2. Transcorporeality in 21st-century mermaid tales Children's Cultures after Childhood, Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Justyna and Macarena García-González (eds.), pp. 20–34 | Chapter

This chapter takes its cue from the dominant presence of the mermaid trope in 21st-century media culture. It opens with a sampling of contemporary mermaid figurations, which are driven by the desire to break out of the Romantic paradigm as shaped by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid… read more

Wesseling, Elisabeth 1997 3.1.3 Historical Fiction: Utopia in History International Postmodernism: Theory and literary practice, Bertens, Hans and Douwe W. Fokkema † (eds.), pp. 203–212 | Article

Wesseling, Elisabeth 1996 Holier Than Thou: Literature, Science and the Empirical Turn The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary studies in a changing world, Hendrix, Harald, Joost J. Kloek, Sophie Levie and Willie van Peer (eds.), pp. 301–305 | Article