02469oam 22005894a 450 991027235510332120250709191315.09781501723261150172326X9781501723278150172327810.7591/9781501723278(CKB)4340000000258182(MiAaPQ)EBC5317488(OCoLC)1057626243(MdBmJHUP)muse67540(DE-B1597)496593(OCoLC)1041989660(DE-B1597)9781501723278(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89112(Perlego)566048(oapen)doab89112(EXLCZ)99434000000025818219830329d1983 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Forms of Historical FictionSir Walter Scott and His Successors /by Harry E. ShawCornell University Press2018Ithaca :Cornell University Press,1983.©1983.1 online resource (259 pages)Includes index.9781501723261 9780801415920 0801415926 9781501723285 1501723286 Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --A Note on Citations of Scott's Works --I. AN APPROACH TO THE HISTORICAL NOVEL --2. HISTORY AS PASTORAL, HISTORY AS A SOURCE OF DRAMA --3. HISTORY AS SUBJECT --4. FORM IN SCOTT'S NOVELS: THE HERO AS INSTRUMENT --5. FORM IN SCOTT'S NOVEL: THE HERO AS SUBJECT --IndexHarry 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 historical novelist-and by Balzac, Hugo, Anatole France, Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, and Tolstoy.Historical fictionHistory and criticismHistorical fictionHistory and criticism.823/.7Shaw Harry E.1946-914423MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910272355103321The Forms of Historical Fiction2428390UNINA