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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| Formato: | Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1983.
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| Colecção: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumário:
- 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.