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oapen-20.500.12657-620392024-03-27T14:14:43Z The Forms of Historical Fiction Shaw, Harry E. Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Harry 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. 2023-03-29T15:49:08Z 2023-03-29T15:49:08Z 1983 book ONIX_20230329_9781501723278_25 9781501723278 9780801415920 9781501723261 9781501723285 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62039 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501723278.pdf 9781501723285.epub Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/0w3d-0t94 10.7298/0w3d-0t94 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501723278 9780801415920 9781501723261 9781501723285 Cornell University Press 256 Ithaca [...] Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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Harry 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.
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