British Historical Fiction Before Scott

Informationen zum Autor ANNE H. STEVENS is an assistant professor in the department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Klappentext In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation. Zusammenfassung In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Acknowledgements The Formation of a Genre Historical Novels, 1762-1783 The Historical Novel in the Circulating Library Historical Novels, 1784-1813 The Historical Novel in the Reviews Epilogue: Ivanhoe and Historical Fiction Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: A Stevens, A. Stevens, Anne H. Stevens
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2010
• EAN: 9780230246294
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24629-4
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enligh
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; B, European History, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Western Europe, Literary theory, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, fiction;genre;knowledge;novel