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oapen-20.500.12657-300752024-03-25T09:51:47Z Reinventing Liberty Price, Fiona Literature Antiquarian Chivalry thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and early 19th century. For the first time placing these works in the context of British politics and British history writing, this book redefines the historical novel, revealing a genre which seeks to manage political change through historiographical experimentation. It explores how historical novelists participated in a contentious debate concerning the nature of commercial modernity, the formulation of political progress and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty uncovers how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as Ôland of libertyÕ. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-24 03:00:26 2020-04-01T12:44:25Z 2020-04-01T12:44:25Z 2016-03-01 book 650025 OCN: 953594424 9781474402972 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30075 eng application/pdf n/a 650025.pdf Edinburgh University Press 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402965.001.0001 103463 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402965.001.0001 2a191404-86cd-479e-afc8-ff2b8d611a94 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781474402972 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 103463 KU Round 2 608322 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and early 19th century. For the first time placing these works in the context of British politics and British history writing, this book redefines the historical novel, revealing a genre which seeks to manage political change through historiographical experimentation. It explores how historical novelists participated in a contentious debate concerning the nature of commercial modernity, the formulation of political progress and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty uncovers how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as Ôland of libertyÕ.
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