The Journal of Historical Fictions
published by the Historical Fictions Research Network
Volume 5, Issue 1: “The Collapse of Minoan Crete in Mary Renault’s The King Must Die: Creative Sensemaking in Understanding History” by Hamish Williams, pp. 56-83.
Abstract
Hamish Williams is Lecturer in European Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His main research area is classical reception studies, particularly post-classical afterlives in modern literature and popular genres, but he is broadly interested in modern literary studies, covering topics such as utopianism, mythmaking, hospitality and the sublime. He edited Tolkien and the Classical World (2021) and co-edited The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception (2022).