Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors

by Harry E Shaw and Harry E. Shaw

Book Overview

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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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801415926
• ISBN13: 9780801415920
• Release Date: August 1983
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher