James William Anderson, Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life. Explorations in Narrative Psychology
Four years ago, when my novel on Joan of Arc was first published, it was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal by Maureen Corrigan. The review, which was a positive one, drew the attention—and ire—of a reader, who wrote, “Ms. Chen’s portrayal of St. Joan of Arc as an angry Amazon is a distortion of t...
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European journal of American studies
2026
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| Zusammenfassung: | Four years ago, when my novel on Joan of Arc was first published, it was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal by Maureen Corrigan. The review, which was a positive one, drew the attention—and ire—of a reader, who wrote, “Ms. Chen’s portrayal of St. Joan of Arc as an angry Amazon is a distortion of the historical record… Appeals to historical fiction’s privilege ‘to keep loose its tether to fact’ do not suffice, since such claims are understood to flesh out the personality of the protagonist a... |
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