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British Historical Fiction before Scott

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the series
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In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley, dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries.

This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.

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Palgrave Macmillan
0230275303 / 9780230275300
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
09/04/2010
England
English
195 pages
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