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: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2018
1983. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422305406719 |
| 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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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (259 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781501723261 9781501723278 |
