The Historical Novel and the Nation

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: David Buchanan, David ([e-mail] Undeliverable Oct 20. Case 01678464) Buchanan, David Buchanan
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2016
• EAN: 9781472425560
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-2556-0
• Series: Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form