Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction

Fascinating and comprehensive in scope, the Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction is a valuable source for both students and teachers of literature, and for those interested in locating the facts behind the fiction they read. In a single, scholarly volume, it provides intriguing insight into the real identity of people and places in the novels of over 300 American and British authors published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

List of contents

A selection of the Authors covered: Jane Austen, Saul Bellow, Samuel Beckett, Charlotte Brönte, Lewis Carroll, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Elizabeth Gaskell, Graham Greene, Radclyffe Hall, H.D., Ernest Hemmingway, Henry James, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, John Le Carre, George Orwell, Vita Sackville-West, Siegfried Sassoon, Sir Walter Scott, Tobias Smollett, Gertrude Stein, William Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde

About the author

M.C. Rintoul

Summary

This Dictionary explores the identities of fictional people and places in over 1,000 English language novels and short stories. Over 4,000 identifications are included and supported or contested by accompanying extracts.

Product details

• Authors: M C Rintoul, M. C. Rintoul, M.C. Rintoul
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.1993
• EAN: 9780415059992
• ISBN: 978-0-415-05999-2
• No. of pages: 1194
• Weight: 2370 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Reference works, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, sir;william;john;george;vivian;grey;mrs;humphry;ward;thomas