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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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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mars 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501723278
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

This book has been published with the aid of a grant from the Hull Memorial Publication Fund of Cornell University.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850, or visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 1983 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shaw, Harry E., 1946– The forms of historicalﬁction : Sir Walter Scott and his successors. Includes index. 1. Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771–1832—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771–1832—Inﬂuence. 3. Historicalﬁction. I. Title. PR5343.H5S5 1983 823'.17 83-5354 ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-1592-0 (cloth) — ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2326-1 (pbk.)

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Cover illustration: Portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Henry Raeburn, reproduced by permission of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

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