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Autore: | Price Fiona L. |
Titolo: | Reinventing Liberty / Fiona Price |
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 |
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