num_pages: 256
description: Harry Shaw's aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history was used in prose fiction during the nineteenth century, examining major works by Sir Walter Scott--the first modern historical novelist - and by Balzac, Hugo, Anatole France, Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, and Tolstoy.
language: English
title: Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and his Successors
titlecomplete: Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and his Successors
characters: Charles Dickens, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anatole France
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Cornell University Press