Reinventing Liberty / Fiona Price

• Autore: Price Fiona L.
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 810/820
• Soggetto topico: Historical fiction, English; English literature; Historical fiction, English - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ancient liberties -- The labours of history -- Uneasy alliance : liberty and the nation -- Conserving histories : chivalry, science and liberty -- The end of history? Scott, his precursors and the violent past.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, 'Reinventing Liberty' reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Reinventing liberty
• ISBN: 1474426077; 147442211X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910132494103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.