The Forms of Historical Fiction

The Forms of Historical Fiction
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9781501723285
ISBN-13 : 1501723286
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Book Synopsis The Forms of Historical Fiction by : Harry E. Shaw

Download or read book The Forms of Historical Fiction written by Harry E. Shaw and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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