The Forms of Historical Fiction : Sir Walter Scott and His Successors /
Harry Shaw's aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history was used in prose fiction during the nineteenth century, examining majo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Harry Shaw's aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history was used in prose fiction during the nineteenth century, examining major works by Sir Walter Scott--the first modern historical novelist--and by Balzac, Hugo, Anatole France, Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, and Tolstoy. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 1501723278 9781501723278 |