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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1983.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (256 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781501723285 |
| Accès: | Open Access |