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Category: Books (Literary Criticism)
Author: Stevens, A.
Author: Stevens, A.
ISBN-10: 023024629X
ISBN-10: 023024629X
ISBN-13: 9780230246294
ISBN-13: 9780230246294
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Binding: Hardcover
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 01-Mar-2010
Pub Date: 01-Mar-2010
SKU: 023024629X-11-SPRI
SKU: 023024629X-11-SPRI
Item ID: 100730951
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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.List of Tables Acknowledgements The Formation of a Genre Historical Novels, 1762-1783 The Historical Novel in the Circulating Library Historical Novels, 1784-1813 The Historical Novel in the Reviews Epilogue: Ivanhoe and Historical Fiction Works Cited IndexANNE H.?STEVENS is an assistant professor in the department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.