The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors

Author/Contributor(s):	Shaw, Harry E
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	08/15/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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...