num_pages: 363
description: "Concentrating primarily on the 19th century, Lukacs offers brilliant reflections on Scott, Hugo, Tolstoy, and Flaubert, the methods of creating a feeling of historical reality, the tradition of epic, the use of the past by the rising bourgeoisie, the negative influence of naturalism, and the place of overt ideology." Washington Post Book World
language: English
title: The Historical Novel
titlecomplete: The Historical Novel
characters: Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, Heinrich Mann, Walter Scott, Gustave Flaubert
genres: History, Literary Criticism, Criticism, Philosophy, Lit Crit, Research, Literature, Nonfiction, Theory, Politics
ratings_count: 196
publisher: Merlin Press