Richard Maxwell is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Yale University.

"Dubious or not, it makes an appropriate climax for a book that remains invariably engaging by virtue of its unforeseen directions and conjunctions, its wide range, its critical intelligence, and — not least — its daring." -Patricia Meyer Spacks,University of Virginia

• Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. Transmissions and Transformations of Historical Fiction: 1. History in glimpses, or, how historical fiction survived the eighteenth century; 2. Inundations of time: Scott's reinvention of the historical novel; Part II. The Franco-Scottish Model for the Historical Fiction: 3. Pretenders in sanctuary: phantoms of the world-historical character; 4. History on the walls: siege novels and the lure of collective heroism; Part III. The English Historical Novel: An Alternative Path: 5. Juvenile: children, play and history; Notes; Chronological list of historical novels; Select bibliography; Index.

Richard Maxwell is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Yale University.

"Dubious or not, it makes an appropriate climax for a book that remains invariably engaging by virtue of its unforeseen directions and conjunctions, its wide range, its critical intelligence, and — not least — its daring." -Patricia Meyer Spacks,University of Virginia

• Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. Transmissions and Transformations of Historical Fiction: 1. History in glimpses, or, how historical fiction survived the eighteenth century; 2. Inundations of time: Scott's reinvention of the historical novel; Part II. The Franco-Scottish Model for the Historical Fiction: 3. Pretenders in sanctuary: phantoms of the world-historical character; 4. History on the walls: siege novels and the lure of collective heroism; Part III. The English Historical Novel: An Alternative Path: 5. Juvenile: children, play and history; Notes; Chronological list of historical novels; Select bibliography; Index.

Richard Maxwell is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Yale University.

"Dubious or not, it makes an appropriate climax for a book that remains invariably engaging by virtue of its unforeseen directions and conjunctions, its wide range, its critical intelligence, and — not least — its daring." -Patricia Meyer Spacks,University of Virginia

• Acknowledgments; List of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. Transmissions and Transformations of Historical Fiction: 1. History in glimpses, or, how historical fiction survived the eighteenth century; 2. Inundations of time: Scott's reinvention of the historical novel; Part II. The Franco-Scottish Model for the Historical Fiction: 3. Pretenders in sanctuary: phantoms of the world-historical character; 4. History on the walls: siege novels and the lure of collective heroism; Part III. The English Historical Novel: An Alternative Path: 5. Juvenile: children, play and history; Notes; Chronological list of historical novels; Select bibliography; Index.