The Forms of Historical Fiction : Sir Walter Scott and His Successors / / by Harry E. Shaw.

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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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1983.
©1983.
Year of Publication:2018
1983
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (259 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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