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 |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1983, 1983
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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: | 0801415926 9780801415920 9781501723261 1501723286 |