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British Historical Fiction Before Scott by Anne Stevens (2010, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-10023024629X

ISBN-139780230246294

eBay Product ID (ePID)2309305402

Product Key Features

Book TitleBritish Historical Fiction before Scott

Number of PagesXi, 201 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

TopicSubjects & Themes / Historical events, General, Semiotics & Theory, Modern / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction

AuthorAnne Stevens

Book SeriesPalgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2009-048534

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal823/.0910906

Table Of ContentList 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

SynopsisIn 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPN3311-3503