Time For Your Star Turn

“Finn is the latest example of a burgeoning — and commercially successful — literary genre: works that appropriate minor characters from major fiction or drama and award them starring roles. For reasons both legal and historical, 19th century American fiction has seemed especially ripe for revision. The trend may represent a delayed reaction to the ‘new social history’ of the 1970s, in which women, minorities and working people emerged from the background to assume bigger speaking parts.”