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Forms of Historical Fiction : Sir Walter Scott and His Successors
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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, Thakeray, Dickens, and Tolstoy.
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- ISBN-13: 9780801415920
- ISBN-10: 0801415926
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publish Date: August 1983
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.75 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.22 pounds
- Page Count: 256
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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