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The forms of historical fiction : Sir Walter Scott and his successors.
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ISBN: 0801415926 1501723286 1501723278 9781501723278 150172326X Year: 1985 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell university press

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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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