Forms of Historical Fiction - Sir Walter Scott and His Successors

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.

Summary

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...

Product details

• Authors: Harry E. Shaw
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781501723261
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-2326-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies