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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.
A critically astute and industriously documented book.
He rounds out a theoretical discussion of the genre and a study of Scott's contribution with detailed presentations of individual works by major writers, including Barnaby Rudge and A Tale of Two Cities, Henry Esmond, The Cloister and the Hearth, Romola, and Marius the Epicurean. Hardy's The Trumpet Major and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Conrad's The Rover, Suspense, and Nostromo, and Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Between the Acts are considered in a discussion of later, more problematical turns of the genre.
The book is interesting on the full complexity of the historical process in The Heart of Midlothian and Henry Esmond, and on George Eliot's success, in Romola, in 'the application of her conception of realism to the historical novel.'
The English Historical Novel... opens questions which should be of interest to anyone concerned about the novel or about the relations between literature and history.
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Available
Trim Size
5.875
x 9
Pages
288
ISBN
9780801814334
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Towards a theory of historical fiction
Chapter 2. Origins
Chapter 3. Scott
Chapter 4. Dickens: Visions of revolution
Chapter 5. Thackeray: Beyond Whig history
Chapter 6. The late
Preface
Chapter 1. Towards a theory of historical fiction
Chapter 2. Origins
Chapter 3. Scott
Chapter 4. Dickens: Visions of revolution
Chapter 5. Thackeray: Beyond Whig history
Chapter 6. The late Victorian historical novel
Chapter 7. Hardy: The avoidance of historical fiction
Chapter 8. Experiment and renewal
Index
