David Buchanan

Acts of Modernity (eBook, PDF)

The Historical Novel and Effective Communication, 1814-1901

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The gulf between "literature" and "popular literature" is exacerbated by reluctance to consider national literatures with respect to downmarket and transnational dissemination. Buchanan's analysis is situated within discussion of changes in the novelistic use of historicity to describe and direct the shape and progress of the nation state

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317029052
• Artikelnr.: 49261276

Autorenporträt

David Buchanan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, a tutor in the Centre for Humanities at Athabasca University, and a sessional instructor of English in the Department of Literature and Language at Concordia University of Edmonton.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Meaning-making: a history of reading
practices 2. Heart of the matter: consequences of modernity in Clan Albin
and Tales of My Landlord 3. Nation of readers: chapbook versions of The
Heart of Mid-Lothian 4. How the West was one: historification from
Waverley to The Pathfinder 5. Home and away: Leatherstocking reinvented in
America and France 6. "Spiders in a pot": harnessing juggernaut in Le père
Goriot 7. Industrial productions: from editions populaires to a people's
history 8. Community lessons: Canadian tales of national progress 9.
History in action: dramatizations at Montréal, Paris, New York, and London
Conclusion: working the historical novel Bibliography Index