Harry E. Shaw

The Forms of Historical Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Sir Walter Scott and His Successors

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501723285
• Artikelnr.: 51527531

Autorenporträt

Harry E. Shaw is Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot, also published by Cornell University Press, and coauthor of Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot.