The historical novel in nineteenth-century Europe : representations of reality in history and fiction /

Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdós, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and pres...

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Main Author: Hamnett, Brian R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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