The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors - Hardcover

Shaw, Harry E.

 
9780801415920: The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors

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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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Harry E. Shaw is Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot, also published by Cornell University Press, and coauthor of Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot.

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ISBN 10:  150172326X ISBN 13:  9781501723261
Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2018
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