Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors
Author:
Harry E. Shaw
ISBN:
0801415926
Format:
Handover
Publish Date:
June, 2005
Book Review
Book Description 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, Thakeray, Dickens, and Tolstoy.
Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors