{"id":5128,"date":"2021-11-12T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/?p=5128"},"modified":"2021-12-07T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:52:19","slug":"the-infernal-riddle-of-historical-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/12\/the-infernal-riddle-of-historical-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infernal Riddle of Historical Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/001_Untitledgenially-3-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/001_Untitledgenially-3-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/001_Untitledgenially-3-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/001_Untitledgenially-3-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/001_Untitledgenially-3-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/001_Untitledgenially-3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wednesday 24 November, 6 pm GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With James Treadwell (author of the <em>Advent<\/em> trilogy), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ljmacwhirter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">L. J. MacWhirter<\/a> (author of <em>Black Snow Falling<\/em>), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/critical\/staff\/fraserdallachy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fraser Dallachy<\/a> (Lecturer in historical linguistics), and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/critical\/staff\/robertmaslen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Maslen<\/a> (Co-director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Infernal-Riddle-of-Thomas-Peach.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Infernal-Riddle-of-Thomas-Peach.jpg 325w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Infernal-Riddle-of-Thomas-Peach-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us online as we celebrate the launch of James Treadwell\u2019s most recent novel, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hachette.co.uk\/titles\/jas-treadwell\/the-infernal-riddle-of-thomas-peach\/9781529347326\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach<\/a> <\/em>(Hodder and Stoughton, 2021), with a discussion of fantasy\u2019s obsession with history. Each of our panelists shares this obsession. Treadwell\u2019s novel is set in the late eighteenth century, MacWhirter\u2019s in the time of the Tudors, while Dallachy and his colleagues have advised historical novelists by drawing on the vast resources of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ht.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Historical Thesaurus of English<\/a>. Together they will consider some of the challenges faced by fantasists who choose to set their stories in the past. These may include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Historical accuracy: does it matter?<\/li><li>Is language magic? (Advance warning: we think it is!)<\/li><li>What\u2019s at stake in your choice of style as you seek to evoke lost times?<\/li><li>Clich\u00e9s: should we avoid them?<\/li><li>Magic: what part has it played in history?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ll also be responding to questions sent in by participants. Come along and be one of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Book your free ticket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-infernal-riddle-of-historical-fantasy-tickets-209835131527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/James-Treadwell.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5129\" width=\"254\" height=\"293\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>James Treadwell<\/strong> is the author of the acclaimed <em>Advent<\/em> trilogy, about the calamitous return of magic to a world that has forgotten it. These are <em>Advent <\/em>(2012), <em>Anarchy <\/em>(2013) and <em>Arcadia <\/em>(2015), published by Hodder and Stoughton. Before that he was an academic, whose books include <em>Interpreting Wagner<\/em> (Yale University Press 2003) and <em>Autobiographical Writing and British Literature 1783-1834<\/em> (Oxford University Press 2005).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/L-J-MacWhirter-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5130\" width=\"266\" height=\"397\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>L. J.&nbsp;MacWhirter<\/strong>&nbsp;is an award-winning copywriter and author.&nbsp;<em>Black Snow Falling<\/em> was published by Scotland Street Press (2018), introducing a new YA mythology in multiple timelines. The 2019 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award were among its listings and nominations. Liz is currently writing her debut novel for adults, an historical novel with magical realism, in the context of a cross-disciplinary creative practice PhD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Fraser-Dallachy-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5131\" width=\"239\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Fraser-Dallachy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Fraser-Dallachy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Fraser-Dallachy-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Fraser-Dallachy.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fraser Dallachy<\/strong> is Lecturer in the Historical Thesaurus of English in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is Deputy Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English, and is currently working with colleagues both in Glasgow and at the Oxford English Dictionary to update the Thesaurus to its second edition, adding new words, senses, and improved dating to the resource. He has published numerous articles, book chapters and conference proceedings, and maintains several websites, including that of the Historical Thesaurus, second edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fantasy-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100\" width=\"246\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fantasy-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fantasy-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fantasy-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fantasy-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fantasy-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fantasy-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fantasy-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rob Maslen <\/strong>is co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. He has published <em>Elizabethan Fictions<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 1997), <em>Shakespeare and Comedy<\/em> (Bloomsbury 2005), <em>The Shakespeare Handbook<\/em> (with Michael Schmidt, 2008), and editions of Sir Philip Sidney\u2019s <em>Apology for Poetry<\/em> (Manchester University Press, 2002), Mervyn Peake\u2019s <em>Collected Poems <\/em>(Carcanet 2008) and Peake\u2019s <em>Complete Nonsense<\/em> (with G. Peter Winnington, Carcanet 2011). He blogs at The City of Lost Books (<a href=\"https:\/\/thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 24 November, 6 pm GMT With James Treadwell (author of the Advent trilogy), L. J. MacWhirter (author of Black Snow Falling), Fraser Dallachy (Lecturer in historical linguistics), and Rob Maslen (Co-director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow). Join us online as we celebrate the launch of James Treadwell\u2019s most recent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/12\/the-infernal-riddle-of-historical-fantasy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Infernal Riddle of Historical Fantasy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,94,95,96,98,99],"class_list":["post-5128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-fraser-dallachy","tag-historical-fantasy","tag-james-treadwell","tag-l-j-macwhirter","tag-rob-maslen","tag-the-infernal-riddle-of-thomas-peach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}