In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examineseighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitationand experimentation. INDICE: List of Tables Acknowledgements The Formation of a Genre Historical Novels, 1762-1783 The Historical Novel in the Circulating Library HistoricalNovels, 1784-1813 The Historical Novel in the Reviews Epilogue: Ivanhoe and Historical Fiction Works Cited Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24629-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés