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: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1983
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| 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 electronic resource (256 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0w3d-0t94 9781501723278 9780801415920 9781501723261 9781501723285 |
| Access: | Open Access |