British Historical Fiction Before Scott

ISBN-13: 9780230246294 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 201 str.

Anne Stevens

Opis

In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley, dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.

Spis treści

List of Tables Acknowledgements The Formation of a Genre Historical Novels, 1762-1783 The Historical Novel in the Circulating Library Historical Novels, 1784-1813 The Historical Novel in the Reviews Epilogue: Ivanhoe and Historical Fiction Works Cited Index

O autorze

ANNE H. STEVENS is an assistant professor in the department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.