The Journal of Historical Fictions
published by the Historical Fictions Research Network
Volume 6, Issue 1: “‘Reader, the violence they did’: Employing Metalepsis Towards a Collective Narrative in the Historical Novel” by Katie Brandt Sartain, pp. 26-44, 2025.
Katie Brandt Sartain (she/her) holds an MA in English literature from San Francisco State University (2017) and is currently a doctoral candidate (ABD) in critical English studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is also the graduate assistant director of the UIC Writing Center and a professional English tutor at Malcolm X College. Her work has been published in Victorian Popular Fictions Journal and featured on both The Dickens Society Blog and The Dickens Project Audio Podcast. She was a Resident Graduate Scholar at the UIC Institute for the Humanities for 2024-2025 and is a HASTAC Scholar for 2025-2027. Her dissertation, Addictive Practices: Realism and Substance Use in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, focuses on the construction of the addicted subject in the nineteenth-century novel and how the conventions and form of the genre are reliant on themes of addiction.
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