Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, or not employ the characteristic features of a "romance" as defined by Elias. Examples The Sot-Weed Factor, by John Barth (1960) The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles (1969) Mumbo Jumbo, by Ishmael Reed (1972) Flight to Canada, by Ishmael Reed (1976) The Public Burning, by Robert Coover (1976) Flaubert's Parrot, by Julian Barnes (1984) A Maggot, by John Fowles (1985) Hawksmoor, by Peter Ackroyd (1985) Foe, by J.M. Coetzee (1986) Chatterton, by Peter Ackroyd (1987) Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson (1989) Lempriere's Dictionary, by Lawrence Norfolk (1991) A Case of Curiosities, by Allen Kurzweil (1992) Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth (1992) The Volcano Lover, by Susan Sontag, (1992) Vindication, by Frances Sherwood (1993) Mason and Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon (1997) Quarantine by Jim Crace (1997) Dreamer, by Charles R. Johnson (1998) Further reading Elias, Amy J. , Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Hayden White. The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990 rpt). References Literary genres Postmodernism Historiography