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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1983.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A note on citations of Scott's works
- I. An approach to the historical novel
- 2. History as pastoral, history as a source of drama
- 3. History as subject
- 4. Form in Scott's novels : the hero as instrument
- 5. Form in Scott's novels : the hero as subject.