Template:Did you know nominations/Karen Hellekson

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 11:56, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Karen Hellekson

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... that the American scholar Karen Hellekson published the first book in English devoted to analyzing the alternate history genre? Comment. Bit verbose and could perhaps be shortened but the sources lead to hedging: there are earlier non-book works (articles, unpublished theses), some material in German, and at least one book (Alkon; 1987) that contains a "short account" of the genre (per Singles). Sources: "Karen Hellekson, author of the first full-length study of the genre to appear in English" p102 JSTOR & "Two books on the alternate history have been published: Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made; and Karen Hellekson, The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2001)." Note 20 JSTOR The Gavriel Rosenfeld book dates from 2005. & "...over the past couple of decades, there have been a growing number of scholarly studies that, either in whole or in part, discuss "AH" sf: books such as Paul Alkon's Origins of Futuristic Fiction (1987), articles such as Marc Angenot, Darko Suvin, and Jean-Marc Gouanvic's "L'Uchronie, histoire alternative et science-fiction" (imagine ... [1982]) and George Slusser's "History, Historicity, Story" (SFS [1988]), as well as several Ph.D. dissertations by academics such as Joseph William Collins (1990), Edgar McKnight Jr. (1994), Nicholas Gevers (1997), and Karen Hellekson (1998, recently published as The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time [2001])." p.131 JSTOR & "Among the studies on alternate history that have been published in English are those by William Joseph Collins ('Paths Not Taken: The Development, Structure and [End Page 181] Aesthetics of Alternative History', 1990), Aleksandar Nedeljković ('British and American Science Fiction Novel 1950-1980 with the Theme of Alternate History', 1994), Edgar V. McKnight ('Alternative History: The Development of a Literary Genre', 1994), Karen Hellekson (The Alternate History, 2001), Edgar L. Chapman and Carl B. Yoke (Classic and Iconoclastic Alternate History Science Fiction, 2003), and, most recently, Giampaolo Spedo ('The Plot Against the Past: An Exploration of Alternate History in British and American Fiction', 2009)." and goes on to mention several works in German. p181-82 Singles; Project Muse

Reviewed: Jane Lunnon

Moved to mainspace by Espresso Addict (talk). Self-nominated at 03:17, 1 February 2021 (UTC).

This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:27, 12 February 2021 (UTC)