Meanings
- uncountableFiction based on real historical events, but in which the characters are not real, and the minor events may not be realistic.
1 more example
For some, historical fiction should be read as a type of history, for others, a type of fiction. Only gradually did a third term develop that synthesised the two: historical fiction needed to be read as historical fiction, as its own distinct genre that combined features of the novel with features of historical works.
2013, Kate Mitchell, Nicola Parsons, editors, Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past, Springer, →ISBN, page 21
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 歷史小說 /历史小说, 史同文
- 歷史小說 /历史小说 (lìshǐ xiǎoshuō)Translations
- 史同文 (shǐtóngwén)Translations
- 歷史同人文 /历史同人文 (lìshǐ tóngrénwén)Translations
Polish fantastyka historyczna
- fantastyka historycznaTranslations
Cite this entry
historical fiction. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/historical%20fiction
“historical fiction.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/historical%20fiction. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “historical fiction,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/historical%20fiction.
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