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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1983Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781501723285
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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 novels : the hero as subject.
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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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 novels : the hero as subject.

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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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