The English Historical Novel

Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf
Erscheinungsjahr 1972
ISBN: 978-0-8018-1433-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleishman, Avrom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Fleishman, Avrom
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.

Avrom Fleishman is Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University. His other books include A Reading of Mansfield Park: An Essay in Critical Synthesis and Conrad's Politics: Community and Anarchy in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad.