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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shaw, Harry E., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1983.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9781501723285
Acceso:Open Access