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The Forms of Historical Fiction : Sir Walter Scott and His Successors / Harry E. Shaw.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9781501723278
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 NOVEL: THE HERO AS SUBJECT -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 NOVEL: THE HERO AS SUBJECT -- Index

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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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