The Forms of Historical Fiction : Sir Walter Scott and His Successors /

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 majo...

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Autor principal: Shaw, Harry E., 1946- (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1983.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.