"metahistorical romance" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: historiographic metafiction"
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          "text": "From Linda Hutcheon's work on historiographic metafiction to Amy Elias's study of the metahistorical romance, addressing the historical novel, for example, has become something of a minor industry outside conventional history.",
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