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In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a proc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevens, Anne H. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Literary Theory.
British literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 201 pages)
ISBN:9780230275300
DOI:10.1057/9780230275300