The boundaries of fiction : history and the eighteenth-century British novel /
Zimmerman, Everett.
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,
1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction "Historical faith" -- Skeptical historiography and the constitution of the novel -- From Figura to Trace: Bunyan and Defoe -- A battle of books: Swift's Tale and Richardson's Clarissa -- The machine of narrative: Tom Jones and Caleb Williams -- From personal idenity to the material text: Sterne, Machenzie, and Scott -- Coda: epistemology, rhetoric and narrative: Historiography and the fictional -- Index.
English fiction
Literature and history
Historiography
Historical fiction, English
History in literature.