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Beskrivning
"Avrom Fleishman's "The English Historical Novel" provides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel".--Harriet Gilliam, "Clio".
Avrom Fleishman is a retired professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University and is the author of numerous books, including The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf: A Critical Reading (both available from Johns Hopkins), The Condition of English, and New Class Culture.
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Provides the first comprehensive study not only of this subject but also of the theoretical relationship between history and the historical novel. -- Harriet Gilliam Clio
Innehållsförteckning
PrefaceChapter 1. Towards a theory of historical fictionChapter 2. OriginsChapter 3. ScottChapter 4. Dickens: Visions of revolutionChapter 5. Thackeray: Beyond Whig historyChapter 6. The late Victorian historical novelChapter 7. Hardy: The avoidance of historical fictionChapter 8. Experiment and renewalIndex
