Verlag: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971, 1972, 1972, 1972
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
PAPERBACK, cover price $2.95, neat ink underlining done with a ruler on about 15 scattered pages, otherwise good used copy but cover is wavy and light crease mark on spine. FLEISHMAN, AVROM. The English historical novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971, 1972, 1972, 2d printing, recent digital reprint, xix, 262pp., . Classic is still in print at $31.00. - "Avrom Fleishman's "The English Historical Novel" provides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel". - CONTENTS: PrefaceChapter 1. Towards a theory of historical fiction - Chapter 2. Origins - Chapter 3. Scott - Chapter 4. Dickens: Visions of revolution - Chapter 5. Thackeray: Beyond Whig history - Chapter 6. The late Victorian historical novel - Chapter 7. Hardy: The avoidance of historical fiction - Chapter 8. Experiment and renewal. 9780801814334 ISBN 0801814332.