Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors

Shaw, Harry E

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Cornell University Press

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ISBN:	9781501723261
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Pub date:	15 Aug 2018
Language:	English
Number of pages:	256
Weight:	454g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	19mm