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The forms of historical fiction : Sir Walter Scott and his successors by Shaw, Harry E. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Shaw, Harry E.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501723261
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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