Of What Is Passing

Of What Is Passing: Present-Tense Narration in the Contemporary Historical Novel explores a type of fiction that is illustrative of two current trends: on the one hand, the increasing popularity of the present tense as a narrative tense, and, on the other hand, the evolution of historical fiction at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is a pioneering study of contemporary historical novels in which events and the narration of them appear contemporaneous. It is argued that, far from b