The English Historical Novel
Subtitle: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 1, 1972
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801814334
Subjects: Literary studies: general; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Historical fiction, English; English fiction
First sentence: Everyone knows what a historical novel is; perhaps that is why few have volunteered to define it in print.